27 Mar Security As A Service: 7 Ways Coworking Spaces Can Upgrade Digital Trust In 2026
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This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine
Sausalito, Calif. – Mar. 27, 2026
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Cybercrime damage was on pace to hit $10.5 trillion in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. A single U.S. data breach averages $10.2 million, according to IBM. Yet most of the companies flooding into flexible offices don’t have a security team—when they sign a traditional five-to-seven-year office lease, they inherit every one of these risks alone: firewalls, VPN infrastructure, monitoring tools, access control hardware, and the expertise to manage it all.
Cushman & Wakefield’s Global Flexible Office Trends 2025 report found that 55 percent of global occupiers now use flex space, with another 17 percent planning to increase. JLL projects that 30 percent of all U.S. office space will be consumed flexibly by 2030.
Here are seven ways leading coworking operators are reframing enterprise-grade protection as an amenity—attracting members, justifying premium pricing, and making the traditional office lease harder to defend:
1. Replace Keycards With Smart Access Controls
2. Deploy AI-Powered Threat Detection
3. Turn Workspace Design Into a Security Feature
4. Build Zero-Trust Networks Into the Membership
5. Align Cybersecurity With Sustainability Governance
6. Make the Financial Case Impossible to Ignore
7. Open In Markets That Most Need Security As A Service
Cybersecurity Ventures projects that global spending on cybersecurity will exceed $520 billion by 2026. Much of that spend will come from companies that don’t have a CISO—and whose first line of defense is the workspace they walk into every morning.
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