Zoom adoption has skyrocketed with spikes in remote working, but web application security needs to be a top priority to avoid disruptions in collaboration
Our SIEM, InsightIDR strives to make it easy to keep up with rapidly evolving environments. Most recently, for many organizations that likely includes an increase in remote endpoints, infrastructure as a service, and web applications. Even prior to COVID-19, the use of web applications has been growing steadily for the past several years, and an increasing remote workforce has accelerated the trajectory of this adoption. But this greater adoption has meant web applications are a growing target for attackers. The recently published Verizon Data Breach Investigations report highlights this trend, showing a staggering increase in web application breaches and attacks. Web applications were involved in 43% of breaches and nearly 90% of hacking targets were web applications. Yikes.
Source: 2020 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report
Our unoriginal passwords and good old-fashioned phishing have followed us into the cloud, and stolen credentials are the top gateway to compromised web applications. It’s no surprise that credential theft remains the No. 1 tactic used for hacking, according to the VDBIR. It’s the easiest way for attackers to get in, and many Zoom users learned this the hard way over the past few months, with more than 500,000 hacked Zoom accounts being given away for free on the dark web, according to Forbes. This—combined with a spike in “Zoom bombings” where strangers were getting access to enter and troll Zoom meetings—created a lot of headaches ..
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