Almost half of the North American organizations polled have suffered a data breach via a third party in the past 12 months.
The global shift to remote working amid the pandemic brought on a spike in cyber-attacks, raising serious questions about cybersecurity and forcing companies to review their digital resilience strategies and practices.
Cybersecurity has long been understood to be an important corporate priority, but in the rushed implementation driven by the pandemic, systems for remote workers were found lacking. Staff—unwittingly or otherwise—put corporate data at risk, in some cases by circumventing cumbersome procedures, in other s because remote-working security procedures had not been established in the first place.
Personal devices and Cloud deployments offer rich opportunities for attackers to insert any of the many types of malware—ransomware, adware, spyware, viruses, remote access trojans. Analysis firm Forrester predicts employees will be responsible for 33% of breaches throughout this year. And…
