The hardware tools that connect construction companies to the 'net, thanks to the Internet of Things, should be considered a threat, as well as a benefit, says Jayson E. Street, the vice president of InfoSec (information security) at SphereNY. Street recently told construction IT professionals at the Associated General Contractors of America's IT Forum in Chicago that they should address IoT downsides in addition to the two traditional threats to their networks: human and software vulnerabilities.
Street is a security professional companies hire to test and refine their own network security. The "white hat" hacker created the site "Dissecting the Hack" and wrote a book with a similar name ["Dissecting the Hack: The F0rb1dd3n Network"]. He has also spoken at at DEFCON, DerbyCon, UCON and other gatherings about network security.