Nearly nine in 10 chief information security officers (CISO) sacrificed cybersecurity to quickly enable personnel to work remotely due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, a recent report said.
As a result, cyber risks mapped to corporate employees are now more common than those attributed to external threat actors, data security specialist Netwrix said in its newly released 2020 Netwrix Cyber Threats Report. According to the Irvine, California-based company’s survey of 937 IT professionals:
- 39% tightened their data security during the pandemic but 24% reported that their organization is at greater cybersecurity risk than before.
- 63% reported an increase in the frequency of cyber attacks.
- 60% found new security gaps as a result of the transition to remote work.
- 58% reported employees ignoring cybersecurity policies and guidelines.
The most common incidents reported since transition to remote work resulted from human error, with numerous incidents of phishing, admin mistakes and improper data sharing by employees, Netwrix said. Four of the top six types of cybersecurity incidents respondents experienced were linked to company…
