Understanding the significance of cybersecurity in the construction industry : survey findings

García de Soto, Borja (author), Turk, Žiga (author), Maciel, Abel (author), Mantha, Bharadwaj R.K. (author), Georgescu, Alexandru (author), Sonkor, Muammer Semih (author)

Analogous to Industry 4.0, we have the advent of Construction 4.0, a transformative process wherein digital technology and digitalization affect every phase of the life cycle of construction projects, from the design and contracting phase to the construction, operation, maintenance, upgrade, and decommissioning ones. The progress of digitalization has been uneven, as has been the recognition of the new security environment in which the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation (AECO) industry operates. Hackers for profit, disloyal competitors, disgruntled insiders, or even state agents employing hybrid warfare all utilize cyber means to achieve goals that can disrupt processes, corrupt information, interrupt operations, and cause significant material damage or even loss of human life. Starting from recognizing the paucity of studies in this field, this paper analyzes the results from a survey on cybersecurity awareness in the AECO industry. T he analyses employed statistical methods such as t-test, Spearman’s rank correlation test, and ANOVA to test the hypotheses formulated to answer the research questions of the study. The resulting data are commented upon and placed in the context of an evolving industry confronted with the shock of the new security environment, while also moving forward on Construction 4.0 as a creator of added value, new efficiencies, and new capabilities.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Construction 4.0, cybersecurity, awareness, survey
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 20 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 148, iss. 9, art. 04022095
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138530
• UDC: 004.056.53:69
• ISSN on article: 0733-9364
• DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CO.1943-7862.0002344
• COBISS.SI-ID: 115323651
• Publication date in RUL: 26.07.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Journal of construction engineering and management
• Shortened title: J. constr. eng. manage.
• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• ISSN: 0733-9364
• COBISS.SI-ID: 6864645

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: gradbeništvo 4.0, kibernetska varnost, anketa

Projects

• Funder: NYUAD Institute
• Project number: CIC4-2020
• Name: 1st Workshop on Cybersecurity Implications of Construction 4.0