Cyber Security New Challenges In The Post-Covid World

Cyber Security New Challenges In The Post-Covid World

COVID-19 pandemic has been in the headlines over the past few years all over the world. It has also forced individuals, firms, and organizations to adopt new strategies and practices such as hand sanitizing/washing, social distancing, and working remotely. Governments and authorities are reconsidering different effective measures for ensuring that their countries are stably improving, growing, and implementing new economic policies.

While the whole world focuses on the economic threats and citizen's health during a pandemic trauma, cybercriminals undoubtedly started capitalizing on the internet world. In this article, Wissenhive incorporated the new challenges that happen due to COVID-19 on cybersecurity.

As the whole world is recovering after facing a difficult time that was never even expected, we as an individual and organization are anticipating some of the features of the post-COVID-19 business world, which includes

• Institutionalized and Increased remote working
• Growth of the functionality and utilization of online collaborative technologies and tools
• Rising of the e-commerce industry
• More attention to business flexibility and resilience
• Cyber-attack surfaces are expanding due to expanded telework.
• Expedited and accelerated migration to cloud applications and infrastructure

More complex cybersecurity challenges

Digitalizing is increasingly showing its impacts on all the aspects of individual's lives and numerous industries. We can see the rapid adaptation of artificial intelligence, machine learning tools, rising dependency on hardware, software, and cloud infrastructure.

The complexity of digitalization includes various factors, such as the government is fighting numerous battles from fake news to cyber attacks. Leaders and decision-makers are required to acknowledge that cybersecurity is one of the most critical priorities to national security.

The blurring line between physical and digital domains means that firms and nations will remain secure if they consolidate cybersecurity principles, features, and frameworks essential for all enterprises or organizations, especially high-value assets. The government adopted multiple procedures to fight against cyber attackers that are varied, silent, distributed, and technically savvy. The private and public sectors are aggressively engaging in the cybersecurity battle.

Fragmented and complex rules & regulations

Cyber attackers or adversaries neither stop at the borders of countries nor comply with jurisdictions. Meanwhile, firms must operate both a developing number and increasingly complex operation of laws and rules, for example, the California Consumer Privacy Act,  the General Data Protection Regulation, the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, and many more globally.

Data protection and privacy regulations are necessary but can also become fragmented and conflicting if the companies defense mechanisms are weak due to multiple reasons, including costa and priorities. Within companies' budgetary boundaries, organizations have to protect and defend against cyberattacks while they seek to comply with complex rules and regulations.

Policymakers require to consider their judgment and decisions with defensive impact keeping in mind. Individual ordinances may hold similar intent, but numerous policies add complexity for enterprises that require to follow all laws and regulations, which introduces its challenges to data protection and cybersecurity, not always improving them. Policies must be productive and creative for improving protection while minimizing regulatory complexity.

Dependency on other parties

Businesses and companies work in an ecosystem, which is less certain and more extensive than many may recognize. By 2021, connected devices are assumed to reach 27 billion worldwide, which is driven by different trends such as the internet of things, the rising of 5G, and smart operating systems.

The increasing demand for remote work began with the covid situation, which is expected to continue more. The few technology providers all around the world contribute to multiple entrance points for cybercriminals throughout the numerous digital supply. The digital ecosystem is as strongest and powerful as its weakest link. Firms must understand the extent of this exposure means and must be adopting steps for assessing the actual extent of their whole attack resilience and surface to threats.

A cross-collaborative and inclusive process involves teams across various organization units, which is vital for making sure that there is a satisfactory and acceptable level of understanding and visibility of digital assets.

Lacking cybersecurity expertise

Ransomware is one of the fastest expanding cybercrime, and the COVID-19 has intensified this threat. Preventative actions for any cyber attack include proper preparation: assumed of getting hit, backing up with IT data and resources, ensuring operation continuity which is disrupted for computer systems, training and drilling the businesses in a practical cyber responsive plan.

Organizations that are actively adopting cybersecurity measures and improving their infrastructure for cybersecurity are more likely to get success. These organizations are taking future measures to take the flexibility, speed, and scalable advantage that digitalization promises.

The firm's priorities should involve a proactive strategy for every firm for building and maintaining its workforce of cybersecurity. It is essential to plan and strategize for qualified and skilled experts and identifying the long-term advantages that focus on accruing a reputation for developing this expertise, conveyed from experts to newbies entering the profession.