New Delhi: As businesses around the world turn to online support from home, amid the COVID-19 outbreak, cybersecurity threats have increased.
Deepak Bhawnani, CEO of Alea Consulting, said: “Businesses large and small will be affected due to the ramifications of working from home as it will lead to cybersecurity issues. They don’t have the same level of firewall and security as in-office configurations. .
Managers and IT leaders will then want to rethink the dangers to their knowledge and proactively evaluate their knowledge loss prevention processes, as this may have an effect on their reputation in the future, he added.
In addition, cybercriminals have begun to take advantage of fears similar to the COVID-19 outbreak to conduct email scams, phishing, and ransomware attacks.
Anil Bhasin, Palo Alto Networks’ regional vice president for India and SAARC, said: “Cybercriminals have taken advantage of similar fears of the COVID-19 outbreak to conduct email scams, phishing and ransomware attacks. These emails and messages trick users into opening malicious attachments by providing more data similar to the COVID-19 scenario, but involve hidden malicious files in the form of links, pdf, mp4, or docx files.
As painters paint from home, cybersecurity threats are on the rise, said Debasish Mukherjee, vice president of regional sales APAC for SonicWall.
“This is precisely the time when hackers go artistic with their malicious intentions to hack devices and borrow data,” Mukherjee said.
He noted that while caution is advised in this outbreak, there is an organization of opportunistic cybercriminals who are taking advantage of this concern by creating malicious links and apps to hack devices and borrow data. From creating malicious links to appearing in a different way. Unsuspecting applications, hackers in the virtual age are becoming artistic when executing their attacks.
Trishneet Arora, founder and CEO of TAC Security, noted that the low security criteria of home Wi-Fi systems are ultimately a serious risk to the cybersecurity industry, with the knowledge of millions of other people at stake.
“A few isolated cybercrime incidents have already been observed with harmful links leading to the theft of sensitive data. For example, other people offer fake maps that seem to irritate users, requiring the user to download software to generate fake maps, thus creating fake maps. It’s a security issue,” Arora said.
He noted that the role of cybersecurity companies is more important today than ever. Monitoring basic behaviors is critical right now and any anomalous cyber activity should be investigated in time.
Palo Alto Netpaintingss’ Bhasin said employers want to prepare painters who used to paint remotely to deal with the demanding situations that come with it.
This can be done through an educational framework to teach staff how to identify risks, as well as outline transparent procedures to follow in the event of a cybersecurity incident, he added.
Among other precautionary measures, he said sensitive systems and knowledge will also be limited as much as possible, and access will be reviewed and granted only to essential equipment. It will also ensure that painting devices encrypt knowledge at rest and are capable of protecting device knowledge in the event of loss or theft.
Michael Sentonas, CrowdStrike’s global chief technology officer, said crisis control and incident reaction plans need to be able to be executed through a remote workforce.
“A cyber incident that occurs when an organization is already operating outdoors in general situations has a greater chance of getting out of control,” he said.
He added that an effective remote collaboration team (adding out-of-band conferencing bridges, messaging platforms, and productivity apps) can allow a dispersed team to create a “virtual war room” from which to manage reaction efforts.
“Right now, the cybersecurity industry wants to be more dynamic and responsive than ever,” said Trishneet Arora, founder of TAC Security.
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