In the wake of Covid-19, the global workplace paradigm shifted to a remote workforce within a matter of weeks, sometimes even days. Many businesses found themselves in a mad scramble to determine if working remotely and securely was even possible for an entire organization. Unfortunately, haste makes waste, and stopgap “good enough” security solutions left businesses with a severe lack of visibility across corporate and personal devices and ramshackle incident response plans in the event of a breach.
Meanwhile, attackers are taking advantage of the pandemic and preying on people’s fears. Since March 2020, my company has observed a 330% increase from cyberthreat actors deploying malicious files using Covid-19 themes, and in the six months from January to June, our threat-hunting team observed more hands-on-keyboard intrusions than were seen throughout all 2019.
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