The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown have forever changed how we socialize and conduct business. More and more, our personal and professional lives will be online.
Paradoxically, our office towers sit empty. However, the amount of traffic in the virtual world continues to increase exponentially. Our physical borders are closed, but the virtual ones remain wide open, and relatively undefended. Cybercriminals — callous opportunists of the worst kind — take advantage of crises to engage in even more attempts to penetrate computer networks and extract data.
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Coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a wave of cyber attacks – here’s how to protect yourself
Phishing, smishing (SMS phishing) and vishing (voice phishing) attacks are all on the rise. Our tendency to click on infected emails has increased with the correspondent increase in email traffic — a two-fold impact on the severity of the threat environment.
New work spaces
In the past, knowledge workers might have been centralized into one, or a few locations, with controlled access to information. Now they are are dispersed across thousands of sites that the…
