Cybersecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Introduction: COVID-19 Pandemic, the Game Changer1

1.1 COVID-19 Pandemic, The Game Changer

There were no year 2020 predictions that came close to the magnitude of devastation caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease.

It is unbelievable how global events turned out so dramatically in 2020, particularly how the cyberspace became disrupted, not by a devastating atomic bomb or a trans-ocean teletsunami but by a mere biological virus whose infinitesimal diameter is estimated to be only approximately 125 nanometers, or equivalent to 600 times smaller than the diameter of the human hair; that is the novel coronavirus, pathogen that ignited the pandemic, the game changer.

2020 plans and budgets were disrupted [1], everyday life was impacted ...