Anup Nair, Executive Director – ITSA & Cyber Security at RSM shares insights on enterprise preparedness against cyber threats lurking in the COVID-19 era Organizations, in their chase to become global leaders, are ignoring signs and are on the brink of a cyber crime crisis.
The nature of this leaves much scope for cyber attacks.Cyber attacks can potentially disrupt business and can lead to derailment of the company for an hour, a day, a month, a year or forever.
Cyber threat intelligence can help identify security threats for IT teams to ensure cyber criminals are kept at bay.
Some of the key security trends noticed in the last few years are as below:The Scale of ThreatToday, most of the organisations say they have suffered a cyber attack.
With Work from Home (WFH) due to COVID-19, becoming the new normal, and with businesses often lacking the proper controls to identify breaches, it is likely that many more have been unknowing victims.The ramifications are wide-ranging, negatively impacting the businesses’ operations, finances, and reputations.
Cyber criminals are scanning networks to find weaknesses.Modus OperandiThere are various ways by which the cyber criminals commit crimes.