The Importance Of Cyber Security In The Post COVID-19 World

The weakest link in cybersecurity, it's often said, is humans. Individuals are increasingly the targets of two types of attacks:

1. Social engineering seeks to circumvent an existing process and exposes an individual's lack of security awareness.
2. Logical engineering targets a system or technology and exposes obsolete/vulnerable software/misconfigurations.

The new normal of remote working has put the focus firmly on cybersecurity, trust and protecting data. COVID-19 has forced the hand of businesses in several sectors by requiring them to confront their digital preparedness in tackling cyber threats head on.

Changes in the work environment

In the pre COVID-19 era, most employees worked from offices, where the local area network (LAN) as well as the desktops/laptops were adequately secured. Sophisticated technologies could protect against cyber-attacks that originated primarily from the internet and targeted the enterprise network. Enterprise