Vigilance is Key to Adequate Cybersecurity in CRE

“Vigilance, Not Just Systems, is Key to Adequate Cybersecurity in CRE” 
NREI – Dec 7, 2018

Don’t look now, but someone’s watching. We don’t know them, and worse, we can’t see them. Sound a touch paranoid? Well, it gets worse. There are few protections against their intrusions that they can’t breach. Of course, I’m talking about computer hackers. Most sobering of all, as Gregory Stein, vice chair of the data privacy and information security group at the law firm Ulmer & Berne LLP, told NREI last year: "Unlike for banks and hospitals, there’s no federal law requiring real estate businesses to implement security programs to protect information and systems. That’s led to real estate businesses having vulnerable systems and being the focus of potential attacks. Criminals are using a wide variety of attacks that threaten real estate businesses."