{"id":510,"date":"2020-06-06T01:35:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T01:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlaws.org\/?p=510"},"modified":"2020-06-07T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T09:24:26","slug":"cybersecurity-dos-and-donts-during-covi19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlaws.org\/cybersecurity-dos-and-donts-during-covi19\/","title":{"rendered":"cyber security dos and don’ts during covid 19"},"content":{"rendered":"
cyber security dos and don’ts during covid 19. Cyber Security has been a matter of concern for the organisations from a long time and on top of it Covid-19 brought lot of challenges to attain the same.<\/p>\n
The COVID-19 situation has compelled organisations and individuals to take up security measures like social distancing and remote working. Governments and civil administration are bringing up new ways to ensure that their citizens would remain hopeful and stable. New economic plans, relief packages have been announced by the government. While the world is focused on the health and economic threats created by COVID-19, cyber criminals all around the world without a doubt are taking advantage on this crisis.<\/p>\n
There is a huge spike in phishing attacks, ransomware attacks and malware attacks as attackers are using COVID-19 to lure employees and customers by impersonating government agencies, brands or any other important entity.Such attacks are aiming to infect more personal computers and phones. Attackers are targeting businesses as well as individuals by downloading ransomware disguised as legitimate applications.<\/p>\n
Managing Cyber Security has become more challenging in the Work from Home scenario. Following are the Do\u2019s and Don\u2019t for employees and individuals.<\/p>\n
Cyber Security is a mutual responsibility of the organisation and its employees. Each and every individual play a crucial role in safeguarding organisations critical information assets. Current pandemic situation of course has increased the cyber security risk for the organisation, however proper technology measures and security awareness among employees shall certainly help to overcome these issue.<\/p>\n
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