New cybersecurity threats to increasingly remote and interconnected teams can plague every design and construction team. Work-from-home mandates and other side effects of the ongoing pandemic have created more online collaboration, but also more opportunities for gaps in cybersecurity
As teams across these sectors go remote, the attack surface for cyber criminals has dramatically increased, and businesses are more exposed than ever to hacking, malware, ransomware, phishing and other digital tactics. The construction industry is particularly vulnerable, as firms in this field have widely distributed workforces under normal circumstances and regularly use remote devices as standard operating procedure. This also makes them more highly attuned to the risks and in a better position to adapt than other sectors.