#Infosec20: Impact of #COVID19 is 2020's Leading Security Trend

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is the most prominent trend in cybersecurity for 2020, according to Infosecurity Magazine's latest State of Cybersecurity Report.

As outlined in a session at the Infosecurity Europe Virtual Conference, in the annual report, which this year surveyed 75 people including 25 cyber-practitioners, 25 people working in academia and 25 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, 30% of those polled said that COVID-19’s impact on cybersecurity is an influential trend affecting the industry.

Reasons for this varied, including the escalation of phishing and malicious attacks related to the pandemic, as well as the mass movement remote workforces, deployment of VPN and collaboration tools, and the rapid nature in which they were deployed.

BluBracket CEO and founder Ajay Arora said the spread of COVID-19 “has completely changed the cybersecurity landscape” as companies are straining to quickly enable remote workers securely. Tech innovator and entrepreneur Dmitry Akulov said even before COVID-19, more and more companies were becoming more and more dependent on remote work, but the pandemic accelerated that. “I believe that the pandemic will have lasting results on the workplace with more and more businesses who were (at first) slow to the race allowing for workers to stay remote (at least partially),” he added.

“Now more than ever, it’s crucial for companies to create an emergency security plan. It has become important to educate your workers on the risks they face, not just keeping security issues as an internal task that gets handled by experts. We m ..

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