The coronavirus pandemic has changed the workplace forever as remote working, once reserved for a small but growing portion of employees globally, has become the norm.
But moving from a well-furnished office to setting up a workstation at home — potentially for the long run — poses new cyber security risks for businesses at a time when hackers are already attempting to capitalise on Covid-19-related panic.
It is not only computers, tablets and mobile phones that hackers can tap in attempts to steal valuable information. The increasing number of everyday objects connected to the web — the so-called internet of things (IoT) — also present tantalising opportunities for cyber thieves.
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“When everybody has to move to homeworking, everyone has to become their own cyber security expert and make their personal network as robust as they can,” says Roderick Jones, founder of cyber security protection group Concentric Advisors. “Otherwise they risk exposing their corporate information.”
Already, cyber attackers have attempted to exploit the chaos caused by the pandemic. According to an Interpol report, 907,000 spam messages, more than 700 malware attacks and 48,000 malicious domains were discovered in the first four months of 2020 — all mentioning coronavirus. Companies such as companies weakest
