Welcome to the COVID-19 Special Edition of The Cyber Defense Review (CDR). In this issue, we are examining how the pandemic has impacted cybersecurity, and how pandemics may impact it in the future.
The genesis of this issue occurred in early Spring 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic was emerging, infection numbers were rising, and the world began shifting to a telework-focused workplace to mitigate the spread. Immediately, the cyber threat space became much more complex as attack surfaces multiplied. Organizational information security officers and IT departments had to immediately focus on employees’ home systems, networks, and Internet Service Providers (ISP) while maintaining the security of existing company networks. Teleconference capability providers, such as Zoom, instantly became household names and experienced unprecedented growth (Zoom, for example, saw a 30-fold increase in its use), and Virtual Private Networks became commonly used among the growing teleworking population.
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