Is your “smart building” connected? Is your high-tech office, residential building or entertainment facility, with embedded sensors, wireless networks, remote monitoring devices and internet-capable security cameras, now just another “thing” connected to the global “Internet of Things”? Does embedding internet-connected devices within a building infrastructure impose enhanced “cybersecurity” requirements on developers, owners, architects, contractors or other building stakeholders? Do any of those stakeholders have affirmative obligations to mitigate the potential for breaches, hacks or misuse of embedded devices? While, perhaps, an odd question, the “connectedness” of buildings, cars, and other “objects” requires renewed consideration of security protocols and practices in light of evolving laws, changing commercial expectations and the potential implications for ubiquitous connected “things.”

Originally published in Daily Journal - February 14,2019.