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…
