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In 2017, we came together to form the Real Estate While we enhance our membership model, you can
Cybersecurity Consortium (RECC) with the purpose to help find us and our best practices on LinkedIn at: Real
elevate awareness, and to partner with manufacturers and Estate Cybersecurity Consortium (www.linkedin.com/
service companies to share best practices and information groups/13733286/). Connect with us, join the LinkedIn
that will improve the supply chain and the building technol- group and download our best practices. Apply them to your
ogy industry. Above are the member companies that form building technologies and your product/service contracts.
our RECC Leadership Board and the contributing member You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. To come
organizations supporting our mission. full circle, you may be one click away from an employee
or vendor inviting malware in the door. One last item if you
In 2019, the RECC came together to produce the following are not convinced, the FBI recently stated that cybercrime
three best practices and guidelines to help improve the during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased 400%. That
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industry: means a 400% increase on your pre-COVID risk which was
already at a new high. So click join, not joke, and help pro-
1) IT Security for OT Systems: Providing a best practices tect us all.
framework for the OT lifecycle starting with identifi-
cation of a solution through maintenance/support and Charles Meyers is SVP & Chief Technical
product end-of-life. Architect, Corporate Property Group of Wells
Fargo and responsible for emerging technolo-
2) IT Security Assessment for OT Systems: A series of gies that optimize the company’s real estate
questions used to assess the technology, process, and portfolio. Currently, he is focused on mitigating
people of your OT systems using an IT-based focus. the emerging threats and cybersecurity vulnerabilities around
building operational and physical security technologies. He
3) Guiding Principles to Improve Vendor Cyber Security also spearheads the industry association, Real Estate Cyber
Contract Requirements: Highlighting contract areas Consortium (RECC), to improve cybersecurity preparedness
to provide better accountability from your vendors, and for buildings and facilities.
your vendor’s vendors.

1 Cimpanu, Catalin, “FBI says cybercrime reports quadrupled during COVID-19 pandemic,” ZDNet.com, April 18, 2020.
www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-says-cybercrime-reports-quadrupled-during-covid-19-pandemic/

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