Cybersecurity: How Vulnerable are Your Building and Company Operations?

We all agonize when a virus hits our personal computer, rendering everything we’ve cared about and stored on it inaccessible and lost forever.

But terrible as that is, imagine the consequences of your BMS and its related interfaces being brought down by a cybersecurity breach? With the cost of the average corporate data breach now running at $3.8 million per event*—not including business losses—cybersecurity is one of the most critical issues facing our industry today. Yet most of us don’t even know we’re at risk.

BOMA/NY is demystifying this vast topic and relating it directly to your operations on April 20 at Cybersecurity: How Vulnerable are Your Building and Company Operations? Created by BOMA/NY’s Professional Development Committee, comprised of your peers, this seminar is not just for your building staff--you’ll want to invite your company’s IT professionals and consultants, and attend as a team.

Your takeaways will be immediately applicable and will include:

•    cybersecurity areas and threats to focus on
•    best practices for managing network exposure
•    how to work with and the questions to ask your security and IT professionals
 
How To's, Best Practices and More

We’ll kick off by providing a foundation covering recent events, breaches, statistics and trends, and the types of threats your building and tenant companies are facing.

Building on that, the discussion will turn to what these threats mean at the property and corporate levels. Panelists will cover not just the types of possible cyberattacks, but the implications they may have on liability and compliance measures, commercial property control systems, confidential data, and brand and reputational damage.

From there, our panel will dive into the "how to" details, focusing on Best Practices to assess exposure and manage risk. Best Practices will cover risks specific to your building’s operations—including automation systems, and security and access control systems—and the corporate network. You’ll learn how all of these systems relate to the Internet and what to consider when providing network access.

Still concerned about how to put cybersecurity measures in place? Our panel will touch on key steps in the design and implementation of a cybersecurity plan; recommend useful applications, tools and resources, and guide you through prioritizing and mitigating threats.

Our panel of experts features:

•    Raj Goel, Chief Technology Officer of Brainlink International, Inc., a 25-year veteran of the IT world, and known for developing compliant security solutions to Fortune 100 companies across many industries

•    Todd Januzzi, Senior Vice President and Chief Information and Technology officer of the national REIT,  Paramount Group, Inc., who will share his experience and expertise from the commercial real estate ownership and management perspectives

•    Mitch Thompson, from the FBI’s Cybercrime Branch, an expert in issues of the governmental role and the focus on privacy who will also provide "big picture" input

This seminar is cutting edge and a "must" for all of us in real estate today. Make sure you join us from 8-10 am on April 20 at Club 101 at 101 Park Avenue. Registration will be available shortly—look for your electronic invitation arriving in your mailbox soon.

*As reported by Reuters regarding a 2015 IBM-sponsored study conducted by the Ponemon Institute

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