Cybersecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cyberspace at Risk4

No business is completely immune from the risk of cyberattacks, and as the COVID-19 pandemic raged on, the cyber risk patterns and exposures became more apparent.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, vulnerabilities manifested mainly as unknown flaws and weaknesses that attackers took advantage of, to compromise corporate data privacy and sensitive personal information.

With the passage of time, it became obvious that each good-intentioned global intervention to contain the spread of the virus was in some way exploited by malicious hackers and internet fraudsters using hostile exploits to initiate a unique type of cyberattack on the cyberspace, thereby increasing risks of data loss, identity theft, and operational disruption. ...