The Coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused a massive shift to working from home protocols. Companies globally have their employees working remotely possibly for the first time ever. There are currently BILLIONS of people now working remotely, many of them doing so for the first time in their lives.
Before the outbreak of COVID-19, most companies had never attempted a work from home scenario. In fact, a majority of organizations did not have a plan in place for if the entire company was forced to work remotely. This means there is an extreme lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 non-essential business mandates and the work from home policies they inspire.
Now we have an extremely unsafe and volatile environment in terms of cybersecurity. Hackers are already exploiting the opportunity to attack unprepared businesses with more than 2,600 detected threats a day according to Check Point Research.
Check Point, together with Dimensional Research, recently surveyed 411 IT and security professionals, all from organizations of 500 or more employees globally and from a range of industries.
“The results are sobering. 71% of security professionals have noticed an increase in security threats or attacks since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak,” the report stated.
Phishing (55%), of course, came out on top as the leading Coronavirus-based threat, followed by malicious websites that claim to give advice or whacky remedies for COVID-19 (32%). Increases in malware (28%) and ransomware attacks (19%) were also noticed.
Security Professionals are concerned to say the least. According to the CheckPoint report, 61% of them said there was a need for rapid adjustments to the changing circumstances. Concerns about remote access security and scaling up security remotely were voiced loudest.
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