Cybercriminals love disasters — which provide them with business opportunities to prey on concerned citizens surfing the internet for information. COVID-19 is no exception. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, cyberattacks have roughly quadrupled since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The sudden, unanticipated shift to remote working has increased the number of possible failure points in a security system and created a large distracted workforce that is vulnerable to socially engineered cyberattacks.

Other work-from-home habits — like password reuse and letting family members access corporate devices — are putting critical business systems and sensitive data at risk. A recent survey by CyberArk says that 77% of remote employees use unmanaged, insecure BYOD devices to access corporate systems, while 37% save passwords in browsers on their corporate devices.