How COVID-19 Changed The Cyber Security Worldwide? — Cyberroot Risk Advisory

How COVID-19 Changed
The Cyber Security
Worldwide?

Cyberroot Risk Advisory

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has changed the way
human think and live. COVID-19 has forced people to
embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote
working. While the countries and nations are focused on
their people health and economic challenges risen by COVID-
19, cyber criminals are capitalizing this crisis as an once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity.

COVID-19 has created a huge challenge for cyber security
worldwide. Cybersecurity experts saw 63 percent increase in
phishing, malware and ransomware attacks related to the
pandemic. In just a single month, the world became far more
vulnerable than ever.

Because of COVID-19 companies shifted rapidly to remote
working which increased the risk of more infected computer
and other digital devices. Attackers are not only targeting
businesses, they are also targeting end users who download
COVID-19 related applications and visit sites. They trick
them into downloading ransomware files cloaked as
legitimate applications.

Cybercriminals are also using vulnerabilities present in
popular software’s and websites to host malicious codes.
Attackers trap people to these sites and then drop malware
on their digital devices.

Since COVID-19 starting, new cyberattack techniques
jumped to 35% of all attacks. Even the antivirus software’s
are not compatible to detect these new attacking techniques
alone.

In this critical time organizations must aggressively confront
the risks and also train their employees to be more watchful
when opening any link, emails or documents related to the
subject COVID-19.

Steps that organizations should take to ensure they
maintain security while employees are working from home.

1. KNOW CYBERSECURITY

The first step in protecting sensitive information is to make
sure all employees know that how important and serious
data protection is, and the best way to do that is by
establishing a cybersecurity policy.

2. SECURED NETWORK

Using an unsecured network can be risky and cause you
data security breach. The easiest solution is to require all
employees to use a fully patched and secured network.

3. PASSWORD IS IMPORTANT

Educating remote workers about password protection.
Train employees how to keep passwords strong and why
it’s so important to not use the same one over and over
again.

4. REGULAR BACKUP YOUR DATA

Another way to avoid risk and secure data is to have the
regular backup of the same. In case you lost your device or
data, you can easily access the backup.

COVID-19 is expected to be temporary. But until life comes
back to normal, it’s very important for everyone to be more
careful and alert not only with work data but also with
personal hygiene and social distancing. Both cyber security
and COVID-19 are very big challenges for everyone and only
way to fight with these issues is to follow the right
guidelines.