CYBERSECURITY
How mass remote work has changed DDoS It’s hard to imagine a time when Internet connectivity was such an important commodity in our everyday lives. In the pre-pandemic world we relied on it, but the act of national lockdowns, global travel restrictions and quarantine orders pushed us to lean ever more heavily on that connectivity. BY ASHLEY STEPHENSON, CTO, FOR CORERO NETWORK SECURITY WHILE WE ARE REACHING the tentative end of the pandemic in many parts of the world - the things that were put in place over the year-and-change of tumult look like they might turn into longer term behaviours, practices and working standards. Mass remote work is one of them. In early 2020 companies were forced to send legions of workers
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home, placing them outside the safety net of office security controls and into potentially insecure home environments. Cybercriminals easily exploited these new vulnerabilities in these already strained organisations. Phishing attempts abounded, with hackers trying to exploit the general panic of the global pandemic, as
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