Editor's note: Col. (Retired) Barry Hensley leads Secureworks' Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) and Cyber Threat Analysis Center (CTAC).
It is a sad reality, but both hostile state actors and opportunistic cybercriminals are already leveraging COVID-19 themed campaigns to conduct phishing and deliver malware. Secureworks Counter Threat Unit researchers have observed that, as is common with all topical news stories, criminal actors making cynical use of the current crisis to promote misinformation and products with the intent to harm organizations and individuals.
By following key good cybersecurity hygiene practices, organizations can protect themselves and their employees against these attacks.
At Secureworks, we exist to secure the human progress that technology enables. In this new COVID-19 corporate landscape, our customers are dealing with the competing challenges of protecting employees and business systems, while also rapidly making business and technology changes, including adopting new temporary remote working practices.
Best Practices for Overall Cybersecurity
If you are one of the many companies rapidly adopting these new working practices, including encouraging remote work from home, I want to give you our best advice for maintaining business continuity while not increasing your organization's cybersecurity risk:
Remote access services are now business critical. Services that facilitate communication, collaboration and delivery of core business services for a remote workforce will now become vital systems, where previously they were a flexible convenience. Organizations may need to open up additional access and reconfigure services in order to enable full remote functionality. There will be pressure to do this rapidly and bypass normal change control processes. I want to challenge you to balance the need for speed of delivery with diligence in ..
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