To protect populations from COVID-19, countries are facing unforeseen circumstances and taking extreme measures in response. Everything is moving fast, but we can see that countries that took decisive measures early have slowed the virus's spread.
Security professionals can learn from the healthcare industry new ways to protect their own organizations from hackers, who are out in full force.
We in the security arena are also inundated with finding increasing and more severe vulnerabilities. To maintain business continuity in this quarantined era, organizations are allowing – or mandating – their employees to work from home and access the organization's business assets from afar.
Attackers are exploiting the high volume of remote users logged into the organization, presenting a new, very distributed and volumetric, baseline of remote logins. This makes it very hard to identify unusual remote logins and makes it harder to detect credential theft cases; devices that are used to log in for the first time are no longer an anomaly, and so may not be identified. This is the new normal with user behavior and access patterns that have never been seen before, so most organizations are in the area of experiencing "unknown unknowns." They don’t even know what they don’t know.
Additionally, many employees are not security trained and can be attacked by quite simple social engineering methods as they work from home. Spear phishing (with weaponized emails), credit theft of remote user credentials, and phishing campaigns are on the rise.
And not only are doctors and nurses understaffed and overworked in hard-hit areas, so are SOC and IT teams. SOC rooms are now ..
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