{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Bare Metal Cyber","title":"Concrete and Code: Smart Buildings as the Quiet New Attack Surface","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1013,"description":"Smart buildings used to be a facilities concern; now they behave like distributed systems that can be probed, abused, or ransomed. In this narrated edition of “Concrete and Code: Smart Buildings as the Quiet New Attack Surface,” we walk through how access control, building management systems, cloud dashboards, and vendor VPNs have converged into a single, often unowned, cyber-physical domain. You’ll hear why leaders need to treat operational technology (OT) and smart building stacks with the same architectural seriousness as cloud and identity, and how long-lived capital decisions quietly shape your risk posture for decades. Across the episode, we unpack the core sections of the Wednesday “Headline” feature from Bare Metal Cyber Magazine: the evolution from static buildings to software-defined environments, the real anatomy of smart building stacks, the ways buildings become ransom assets, and the governance vacuum that often surrounds them. We finish with pragmatic leadership moves: reference architectures for campuses, non-negotiables for vendor access and segmentation, and procurement levers that turn vague “smart” upgrades into defensible, testable systems. If you’re responsible for risk, resilience, or technology strategy, this is a chance to rethink how you see the walls around your data and people.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/c80JxDa_44eDmbWFUNb5wUadmqSzBOiBfzOg6W2maK4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZjI3/YTMxZTU0YzllOTRk/NzE1YzIwOTY1YjA0/ZWJiMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}