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Working Cyber-Safely From Home During Coronavirus

riskacademy — Fri, 29 May 2020 00:59:19 +0000

Amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, more people than ever before are working remotely from home. This raises new cyber security challenges for businesses but there are ways to mitigate the risk.

This sudden shift to working from home significantly increases cyber risks to businesses. The United States Department of Homeland Security and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, together with the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre, issued a joint alert on how COVID-19 is being exploited by malicious cyber actors. The French National Information Security Agency, the ANSSI, has also noted an increase in fraud related to the public health emergency and attempts to exploit COVID-19 for phishing or scams. There are, however, steps individuals and organisations can take to help reduce cybersecurity risks.

SECURE AND HARDEN VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS

The virtual private network (VPN) must now support an entire workforce working from home, around the clock, and on sensitive matters. VPNs need to be able to scale expected and excess or “overflow” traffic. Scalability can be handled via a software or appliance solution. Certain solutions…

COVID-19 – Cybersecurity Risks for Health Care and Research Institutions are Heightened | Baker Donelson

riskacademy — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:10:13 +0000

The health care industry and research organizations searching for vaccines and/or improved treatment protocols are on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. There are obvious inherent risks to treating COVID-19 patients and performing research on infectious diseases, exposure to the virus chief among them. Another risk for COVID-19 health care providers and researchers that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis is the threat of cyber-attack.

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) recently issued an alert warning that malicious cyber actors are targeting health care and other essential services related to COVID-19. According to the CISA and NCSC alert, health care providers, pharmaceutical companies, academia, medical research organizations and local governments face heightened risks. CISA and NCSC report observing advanced persistent threat (APT) actors scanning external websites and probing for vulnerabilities in unpatched software.

On May 13, 2020, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CISA issued a more specific…