Like many others, my company's entire team has been working from home for the last three months. It's difficult for many reasons, but I recently encountered one big, scary challenge I hadn't thought about--cybersecurity. That's the scary part, it's not top of mind until something goes wrong.
Within the last couple of months, my team realized we were receiving more and more phishing attempts. They looked like emails with subject lines that read "Action required for your SBA Loan," or "You're one click away from reserving your COVID-19 antibody test" or "The WHO says we may all be carriers" followed by a link to click or an attachment to open and learn more. Luckily, my team caught these attempts without opening anything that compromised our data, but it left me with an uneasy feeling like we were somehow more vulnerable than usual.
To understand our cybersecurity better I got in touch with Eric O'Neill, former FBI Special Agent and the National Cybersecurity Strategist for VMWare Carbon Black. He laid out the reasons for the uptick in cyber attacks around the world and helped me protect my company's data.
Cyber hackers and terrorists notoriously hit harder during times of conflict. Starting with the spread of misinformation related to Covid-19 and followed by the political unrest that's gripping the world, rapid information is in high demand. When you pair that with the fear-mongering that is driving common sense right out the window, you get a perfect storm. On top of all that, people are even more vulnerable than usu ..
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