In response to a new Bitdefender report which found that COVID-19 has left businesses at a far higher risk of cyber-attacks, largely due to their corporate infrastructure being exposed to attack vectors and threats that would not have been considered a year ago, experts from three cybersecurity firms offer perspective.
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I encourage IT leaders to look at all mobile applications being used by employees.
Indeed, the immediate rise of WFH initiatives caught many IT departments unprepared to address new threat vectors and data security concerns amid the newly amorphous network perimeter. The SMB data transfer protocol has long been a target of bad actors seeking to penetrate file servers. I encourage IT leaders to look at all mobile applications being used by employees to ensure that any apps that access files behind the firewall are engineered to be managed by the company, deploy timely patches.....Read More
The mass migration to work from home hasn’t so much introduced new threats so much as it has redefined that default assumption.
For the past three decades or so, organizations have invested in centralized information security controls such as firewalls, IPS, and patching solutions that assume that the network population is safely inside the company’s perimeter. The mass migration to work from home hasn’t so much introduced new threats so much as it has redefined that default assumption, rendering the centralized controls built around it far less effective.
Another area of weakness highlighted by the raft of recent .....Read More
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