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Cybersecurity COVID-19 has pushed the workforce online more than ever before. As employees connect to networks from remote locations, this exponentially increases the number of possible targets for bad actors—both nation-states and criminals. While opportunistic cyberattacks are on the rise during this health crisis, including ransomware against essential service providers like hospitals and spear-phishing for credentials of critical employees in healthcare and research organizations, the next trend policymakers need to consider will be attacks exploiting the cloud. As VMWare Carbon Black’s recent Cyber Crime Report says, “cloud-jacking” is a “stepping stone to penetrate” the real target. Key employees, along with public officials and celebrities, are expected to be targeted using this method. With more cloud users than ever before, this attack vector will become increasingly attractive to adversaries. Policymakers need to assess the risk of this kind of attack for the most vulnerable organizations and offer minimum security standards for devices connecting to cloud infrastructure—including the Internet of Things.
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