Securing Twin Systems: Cybersecurity of Digital Twins in the Built Environment pdf

"Securing Twin Systems delivers a masterclass and mission-critical roadmap at the intersection of digital twins and cyber-physical resilience. Pärn and García de Soto provide a field-defining framework for securing digital twins across critical infrastructure and the built environment. " - John Vickers, Director, Louisiana State University, Digital Twin Center

"Cybersecurity will determine whether digital twins remain trustworthy. That distinction may prove to be one of the defining technological and social challenges of our era." - Michael Grieves, Executive Director of the Digital Twin Institute & Professor, University of Central Florida

"Securing Twin Systems deserves a wide readership among architects, engineers, facilities managers, security professionals, and the policymakers who shape the frameworks in which they all operate." - Jeffrey Saunders, Strategic Advisor and Chief Technology Officer, National Defence Technology Centre

"Most cybersecurity books talk past the people who actually run buildings and sites. This one doesn't. Pärn and García de Soto treat ransomware on construction sites, crane vulnerabilities and compromised building systems as what they are: operational risks, physical and human as much as digital. Their ten routes to a breach are the best diagnostic I've seen in this space. Overdue, and well worth your time." - Rob Foster, co-founder Geminum, author of “Designing Digital Twins"

"This is a unique and necessary book that sheds light on the hidden and critical cyber vulnerabilities of digital twin systems in the built environment, while charting a rigorous and actionable path toward cyber resilience." - Vicente A. Gonzalez, Hal Kvisle Professor in Engineering Project Management and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Digital Lean Construction, University of Alberta

"A digital twin is only as trustworthy as the systems behind it, this book finally treats cybersecurity as a design requirement, not an afterthought.” - Fred Gordy, SVP, Secure Connected Solutions, KMC Controls

“This book reframed cybersecurity for critical infrastructure, it's about protecting the decisions we make with data, not just the data itself." -Max Hakim, Founder, Global Avenue; Co-Chair, Digital Twin Consortium

If your digital twin is hacked you risk more than data compromise. Cyber actors could take control of your automated machinery, mask work-site hazards, or even trip your fire suppression systems. It is not just your business and reputation on the line, but lives. Yet across construction and infrastructure, cybersecurity remains an afterthought. Now AI is raising the stakes, making digital twins more intelligent, predictive, and autonomous than ever, while at the same time giving attackers powerful new ways to harm us. In this third volume of the Twin Systems series, Dr Erika Pärn and Prof. Borja García de Soto draw on real cyber incidents and original research to map the threat vectors and vulnerabilities unique to twin systems, introducing the Cyber Risk Triad and offering a practical blueprint for twin system cybersecurity. Based on research with over 100 facilities management professionals who lived through real-life breaches, their Ten Routes to Breach framework profiles ten organisational vulnerability types, from the Unprepared Minimalist to the Comprehensive Defender, revealing why even the best-prepared organisations can be breached, and what separates a contained incident from a catastrophic one. A book for any asset owner, engineer, consultant, policymaker, or student who wants to understand the risks emerging at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and digital twins, and ensure the intelligent systems we build to manage risk never become the greatest source of it.