Healthcare employees are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, in many cases working extended hours under extremely taxing circumstances in an effort to treat the growing number of infected patients. In this environment, it’s critical that everyone is cognizant of an unfortun...
cyber securityresiliencethreatsvulnerabilityThe outbreak of the COVID pandemic crisis around the world and the resulting unprecedented measures taken by governments required organizations to quickly adopt new ways of (remotely) working. At face value, this would suggest a higher vulnerability for cyber ...
As many employees continue to work from home since the COVID-19 pandemic began, cyber security has become more important than ever. AlasConnect, an Information Technology Management company in the state, says they saw a doubling in call volume to their assistance center since the stay-...
The global pandemic and rising digitization has led to a surge in cyber crimes in the last one year. India saw the number of breaches increased by 2000% during the pandemic, said experts at Pursuit 2021, an event on cybersecurity organized by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IM...
CISA has a three-pronged approach to cybersecurity for the rest of 2020 in light of the pandemic: working toward real-time visibility across all devices, rethinking the way CISA delivers products and services, and making “significant investments” in the cloud. ...
The pandemic has made it harder for companies to maintain security and business continuity. But new tactics can help cybersecurity leaders to safeguard their organizations. (PDF-838 KB)The COVID-19 pandemic has presented chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams with ...
Moreover, states may hire new employees during the pandemic who have never used state IT networks, saidDeloitte Principal Srini Subramanian, a co-author of the 2020 cybersecurity survey. “There are workers, like contract tracers, who have never been state workers before and have never set...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people rapidly started adopting IoT devices, and as a result, attacks on smart devices spiked. In 2022, there were more than 112 million cyberattacks on IoT devices, up from only 32 million in 2018. While this increase can partially be credited to the rapid ...
Controlling access rights to data might mitigate cyber risk Average cyber breach insurance coverage gap is 350% GlobalTechnologyPeopleCyber Cyber attacks skyrocketed during 2020 amid increased remote working following the COVID-19 outbreak, according to a new surve...
Cybersecurity During COVID-19 Three weeks ago (could it possibly be that long already?), Iwrote aboutthe increased risks of working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic. One, employees are working from their home networks and sometimes from their home computers. These systems are more likely...