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• Covid-19 Impact on Cyber Security

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Covid-19 Has Influenced In Cyber Security Forever

• The Covid- 19 Pandemic has caused multisector
  devastation and transformation including the
  Cyber security sector.
• It is a unique phenomenon with a global impact
  which disrupted lifestyles permanently, forced
  corporates to shut down and shuttered people
  dreams forever.
• The Information Technology sector is the
  epicenter of these transformations as
  organizations are rushing to adopt online
  technology and integrate new innovations into
  their systems to maintain efficiency.

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Changing situational factors

• Increased dependency on Virtual technologies with
  little consideration to security implications
  which increase vulnerability. Social engineering
  criminals are identifying victims, impersonating
  trusted information sources and using advanced
  social engineering methodologies to make
  unauthorized access to individual and
  organization systems.
• Common crimes include scam documents and texts,
  photos and images to make victims fall into their
  traps. They send images with hidden malwares used
  for data mining and obtaining confidential data
  like passwords and financial information.
• In response to changing situational factors,
  cybercriminals are diversifying their
  methodologies and they are aggressive to
  capitalize on the new opportunities presented by
  the Pandemic.

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The Convergence of digital technology and
computing

• The world is trying to adjust to maintain
  constant communication without breaching travel
  and social distancing restrictions. There is a
  scramble for new innovations to make
  organizations operational and improve efficiency
  by embracing the work from home concept to
  decongest offices and production areas.
• The Virtual ecosystem is providing essential
  communication services, like updates, both local
  and international, online learning, social
  networking services and entertainment services
  like gaming.

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Telework Softwares

• Many organizations have adopted telework models
  for employees to be able to work and communicate
  remotely, without security considerations in
  place.
• Employers are unable to provide recommended
  security protections since they are far away and
  using insecure IOT devices and untrusted WI-FI
  Networks.
• With all that, there is no time to educate
  employees on protection measures like how to
  avoid possible attacks or detect them before they
  happen.

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Cybercrimes as the new threat

• Even before the Covid- 19 Pandemic, Cyber
  security was a multisector threat affecting
  organizations, industries, governments and to
  larger extent individuals.
• Corporates want to increase their productivity
  and efficiency and therefore they are not
  hesitant to adopt every new innovation in the
  market.

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Covid -19 themed Scams

• These kind of crimes are designed to exploit the
  growing dependency on online communication
  networks and systems.
• Google had earlier reported a rapid increase in
  Covid 19 related message spams in addition to
  increased Phishing and Hacking attacks.
• Malicious websites with names bearing Corona and
  Covid 19 in their domains had been registered.

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Emotional vulnerabilities

• Cyber criminals are exploiting peoples emotional
  instability caused by the disruptions and
  frustrations of the Pandemic.
• End users provide the weakest link to
  cyber-attacks as they always fall prey to crafty
  fraudsters with complex social engineering
  techniques. Individuals therefore cannot easily
  detect possible attacks.
• The Pandemic has provided a context in which
  Crimes are effortlessly committed.

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