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How Covid-19 is Dramatically Changing Cybersecurity

| Author: Prashant Deo, Geetali Raj, Santha Subramoni

The pandemic has created an enormous challenge for businesses worldwide: to continue operating despite massive shutdowns of offices and other facilities. The information technology on which they have long depended – their data centers, cloud systems, departmental servers, and the digital devices their now-remote employees used to stay connected to each other and to the company’s data – becomes even more vital. Overnight, the demands placed on the digital infrastructure have skyrocketed. 

Such technology also becomes a much bigger and more lucrative target for cybercriminals. Cybersecurity efforts need to be upgraded to prevent a second crisis from emerging: on the digital devices and networks that have become infinitely more vital to companies in recent weeks. In other words, “business continuity” has become a mandate.

In this article, we provide an overview of the heightening technology risks to large companies around the world from cyberattacks, and the factors driving them. We then outline ways to better protect their technology, data and other digital infrastructure in these precarious times.

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