May 2019
It seems like an all-too-common occurrence these days: global companies such as Target and Yahoo suffering destructive cyber breaches that caused financial distress for the companies and their customers. While some brand names have been tarnished by cyber attacks, every organization risks losing their consumer trust as a result of a breach—including construction companies. Statistics support this assertion; according to a recent Forrester survey, more than 75 percent of respondents in the construction, engineering and infrastructure industries experienced a cyber incident in the last year. This statistic sheds some light on the susceptibility of construction companies, as cyber criminals begin to improve their abilities to penetrate company networks.
