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Smart Office Buildings Can Help Sniff Out Viruses but Are Vulnerable to Hacks
These buildings promise healthier, happier workplaces. Experts point to privacy and cybersecurity concerns. Click Here to Read More
It’s Time CRE Got Serious About Cybersecurity
By Tom Shircliff, Vice President, Intelligent Buildings We all know about cybersecurity risks either firsthand or from the headlines that tell of high-profile incidents involving credit card records, government records, corporate email and social media...
Russian Aggression Could Mean Cyberattacks on CRE Firms
Before the Russian troops and tanks moved into Ukraine, Microsoft got alerts for new malware aimed at government systems in the besieged Eastern European nation, according to the New York Times. But to assume that cyberattacks will direct themselves...
Cybersecurity Gets Physical
By Tom Shircliff, Vice President, Intelligent Buildings No matter what business you are in, it’s almost surely conducted inside of four walls of commercial real estate including office, industrial, mixed use, healthcare etc. This means, like or not you...
Russian Malware Attack On Commercial Real Estate
SUMMARY We are alerting you that we recently detected and eliminated a Russian malware attack on a commercial real estate building through our multi-dimensional managed service protection. We are linking the incident to Russia based on a bulletin...
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 3/9/22
ICYMI: Intelligent Buildings spotlights APC Smart-UPS TLStorm vulnerabilities that allow attackers to cause cyber and physical damage through undetected remote access. SUMMARY Over 20 million APC Smart-UPS (or uninterruptible power supply)...
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 1/25/22
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Jan. 25, 2022) – Intelligent Buildings, LLC announced the promotion of Amanda Loeffert to director of content strategy. Her new role will lead company efforts to create a compelling content and marketing strategy that supports key...
Intelligent Buildings® Adds Seven to Team of Experts Across the Country
Company expands workforce to keep up with growing demand CHARLOTTE, N.C. (Jan. 18, 2022) – Intelligent Buildings, LLC announced today it has brought on additional teammates to support its growth and goals for this year: Shannon Smith, director of...
INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS | 2021 YEAR IN REVIEW
2021 will be remembered as yet another unprecedented year for all of us. Professionally and personally, everyone has had to continue to adapt to changes. Notwithstanding all of this, Intelligent Buildings has played a part in helping the industry...
The Commercial Real Estate Show features Tom Shircliff
Hybrid Working vs Intellectual & Cyber Security Tom Schircliff joins Michael in Studio One to discuss the challenges and solutions for property owners and business leaders. Okay, we want our people to be able to work from home, office or anywhere....
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 9/30/21
Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH) on the Homeland Security Committee introduced legislation on Tuesday, 9/28, requiring critical infrastructure, nonprofits, businesses with more than 50 employees, and state and local governments to...
Medical Facility Hacked Through HVAC Vendor
In the first week of August 2021, DataBreaches.net was contacted by a threat actor who claimed they had penetrated and attempted to extort ENE Systems, an HVAC vendor. According to the threat actor, they still had access to ENE Systems’ networks and...
Why Hackers Love Smart Buildings – September 2021
The Wall Street Journal – September 2021 Buildings are getting smarter, and that opens them up to a host of new cybersecurity risks. In recent years, building managers increasingly have relied on internet connections and computer networks to manage...
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 8/02/21
ICYMI: Hard evidence of direct threat to commercial building control systems from Nation States. SUMMARY Classified documents were allegedly obtained from Iran that revealed secret research on how cyber attacks could be used to destroy equipment...
Cyber Defense e-Magazine – July 2021
Cyber Defense e-Magazine published commentary from Fred Gordy on how the Colonial Pipeline and JBS cyber attacks shine a spotlight on operational technology vulnerabilities for a wide range of business sectors in their July 2021 issue. You can find it...
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 6/28/21
ICYMI: The first water treatment facility attack of 2021 happened in San Francisco—weeks before the Florida water treatment facility hack. SUMMARY On January 15, 2021, a water treatment facility in the San Francisco Bay area was hacked using a...
Cybersecurity Policy and Incidents Briefing 6/11/21
ICYMI: Intelligent Buildings explains the rising threat to operational technology (OT) assets and how it affects you and your buildings SUMMARY CISA (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency published a fact sheet on 6/9/2021 entitled...
Intelligent Buildings Hires Elliott as Smart Building Consultant
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 25, 2021) – Intelligent Buildings, LLC announced today it has hired Peter Elliott as a Smart Building Consultant for the General Services Administration (GSA). In this role, Elliott will utilize his design, development, and...
Intelligent Buildings Promotes Lanigan to Vice President of Government Services
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 13, 2021) – Intelligent Buildings, LLC announced today it has promoted Scott Lanigan to Vice President of Government Services. In this role, he will continue to lead the company’s government practice, focusing on strategic...
Excited to be a Part of Intelligent Building’s Managed Security Services Offering: The Tempered Perspective
By Gary Kinghorn Director, Marketing Tempered Networks As a network security technology vendor, it’s a hard realization to admit. For decades our networks have not been effective at security. Security is too expensive, tedious, error-prone, and often...
Congratulations Bimal Desai
We are excited to announce the appointment of Bimal Desai, Founding Member, Principal Architect, and Leader of DSP Design, as an Intelligent Buildings Industry Fellow. As an Industry Fellow, he will provide thought leadership and industry perspective...
We Welcome John Hester
We are excited to announce that John Hester has been selected as an Intelligent Buildings Corporate Affiliate. Hester is an accomplished Facilities Manager, Certified Energy Manager and a licensed Professional Engineer. He was most recently Executive...
The First Commercial Real Estate Cybersecurity Service That Not Only Monitors From The Outside In But Also The Inside Out
Intelligent Buildings, LLC reaches new cybersecurity managed services milestones and releases insightful educational video on commercial real estate cybersecurity and vendor risk management. Intelligent Buildings is proud to announce that we have...
We Welcome Dr. Rick Huijbregts
We are excited to announce the appointment of Dr. Rick Huijbregts as an Intelligent Buildings Industry Fellow. As an Industry Fellow, he will provide thought leadership, industry education, and key customer strategy support. Dr. Huijbregts is a pillar...
A Message to Our Customers & Partners
2020 will be remembered as an unprecedented year for all of us. Professionally and personally, everyone has had to adapt to temporary, and perhaps some permanent, changes. Notwithstanding all of this, Intelligent Buildings has played a part in helping...
Intelligent Buildings Customer Announces Major Tenant Lease
Global real estate leaders and joint venture partners Thor Equities Group and QuadReal, are pleased to announce over 200,000 square feet at 800 W. Fulton Market has been leased to Aspen Dental Management. Providing top business support and...
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Implementation of Digital Twins in the Global Building Industry: From Cityzenith
A recent Forbes article predicted that a post-coronavirus future will include more contactless interfaces and interactions, strengthened digital infrastructure, better monitoring and use of IoT and Big Data, AI-enabled development, and an increased...
Vendor Risk Management is the Key to Building Cybersecurity – As seen in Realcomm Edge Magazine
Cybersecurity may not be easy, but you might agree by the end of this article that it is easy relative to the broader technology-related problem in commercial real estate (CRE). In other words, cybersecurity is only a subset of the real problem. For...
Why Control Systems Are Vulnerable To Cyber Attacks
By Fred Gordy In addition to being easily found now with IoT/device search engines, common best practices that IT has used for years are not utilized in the OT (operating technology) world. Audits of systems in the United States and Canada — including...
IB New Construction Customer Interview
Following is a sneak preview from the RealcommEDGE Magazine cover article, "Technology Leaders in The Age of Acceleration," due to hit desks later this month. Steve Lefkowitz is the Head of Global Facilities Management for Time Warner. He oversees FM...
Steps To Protect Your BAS from Cyberattacks
By Fred Gordy The biggest thing holding most facility managers back from securing their systems is fear of the unknown. How much will this cost? How hard will the change be? How inconvenient will it be? What else will it add to the daily to-do list?...
IB Cyber Security Featured in Edge Magazine
Written by Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison, Co-Founders, Intelligent Buildings, LLC While more than 80% of all building automation systems are connected to the Internet, more than 3/4 of real estate organizations don’t have any type of building cyber...
IB Quoted in Building Operating Magazine
By Ronald Kovach, managing editor Building Automation The advent of building controls that are out on the Internet is a reminder that even the best of intentions can also produce potentially bad side effects. Facility managers have grown accustomed to...
Pacific Gas and Electric challenging communities to power down
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) knows that some of the best ways to impact greenhouse gas emissions is by reducing energy use and highlighting energy efficiency. That is why the utility launched Step Up and Power Down — an energy savings movement that will empower businesses to encourage smart energy choices by individuals — which is being joined by some big city mayor.
Charlotte company turns focus to securing buildings from cyberattacks
Article originally published in the Charlotte Observer: May 9, 2015 Tom Shircliff, left, and Rob Murchison, right, of Intelligent Buildings, with a screen in their conference room that shows global cyber attacks happening in real time. Diedra Laird –...
Rise of IoT offers benefits and opportunities but must be weighed against risks
The rise of the Internet of Things in Buildings (BIoT) offers up tangible business benefits and many new opportunities for innovation, but these need to be carefully weighed up against the potential risks of increased cyber security vulnerability. The...
Cybersecurity Article for Climate Control Magazine
There is a very real life-safety danger from elevators, indoor air, electricity and other critical aspects of safety in a building, say Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison, as they present a case for a strategic approach to addressing cyber-threats on an...
Do You Know How and What Your Smart Building Devices Are Connected To?
Okay... Your control system was installed a couple of years ago and you were handed riser diagrams, As-Builts, mechanical drawings, etc. and you were good to go. Right? Maybe... Up until recently the standard implementation for a controls network was...
GSA paves way for IT-based buildings
By Drew Robb, Special to GCN In May, the General Services Administration issued an unusual statement, saying it was “working to integrate power controls into [information technology] operations.” By doing this, the agency expected big savings on energy...
Realcomm and IBCon Summary Interview by AutomatedBuildings.com
by Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison Originally published at AutomatedBuildings.com Cyber theme present throughout Sinclair: Well it’s that time of year again for the Realcomm/IBCon Conferences. Attendance was up and so was the energy. To what do you...
Beyond Environmental Benefits, Cities Seek Green Initiatives to Improve Economy and Urban Living
by Becky Ham Original Post: November 1, 2011 The city of Phoenix, Arizona has doubled its population in the past 20 years without increasing its water consumption—a minor miracle in a region that receives less than 10 inches of rainfall each year. The...
Intelligent Buildings Principal Interviewed about Smart Cities
From: Constructech Magazine In an age of pervasive connectivity, construction companies can help build the next connected municipality. $20 billion. That is the amount of money that will be invested in smart- city technology by 2020. The smart city is...
Carolina’s group calls for major changes the electric power model
Originally published at Charlotte Business Journal Kevin Elkins, Senior Staff Writer Charlotte Business Journal A Carolinas utility trade association is calling for fundamental changes in the industry. The N.C. Utility of the Future Steering Team issued...
Intelligent Buildings Principals Interviewed about Building Analytics
EMAIL INTERVIEW – Tom Shircliff, Rob Murchison and Ken Sinclair Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison are the principals of Intelligent Buildings, LLC, a smart real estate professional services company that they co-founded in 2004. Intelligent Buildings...
Automated Buildings Interview of IntelligentBuildings®
IntelligentBuildings® is a Charlotte, NC based company co-founded by Tom Shircliff and Rob Murchison. IntelligentBuildings® provides strategic consulting and software services for real estate development and management in commercial, institutional and...
Cybersecurity: Time Is Right To Talk To IT
At a good conference, you often get bonus sessions in the form of hallway conversations with speakers and attendees. That happened at this year’s Critical Facilities Summit. The topic was one that’s been much in the news recently: cyber security. Fred...
Intelligent Buildings Co-founder, Tom Shircliff speaks at Duke University on Increasing Energy.
Jim Rogers (retired CEO of Duke Energy) moderated a panel discussion focused on the City of Charlotte’s Envision Charlotte program, which has significantly lowered energy use in the City of Charlotte’s urban core through public-private collaboration and...
What It Means To Be A ‘Smart City’
By linking environmental sustainability and economic growth, Charlotte is showing the way. Author: Bob Graves ~ Associate Director of the Governing InstituteOriginally published...
Roadmap of the Possible Challenge
by Tom Shircliff and Rob MurchisonOriginally published at AutomatedBuildings.com We are grateful that Ken has kicked off the discussion of “Roadmap of the Possible” and is inviting industry stakeholders to contribute to the dialogue. We all owe it to...
Intelligent Buildings Cybersecurity Expert Featured in ControlTrends
Cyber Security Expert Fred Gordy Waives the Cyber Security Caution Flag! Censys Device Search Engine Picking Up Exposed Niagara 4 — Wake Up! Author: KEN SMYERS Originally published...