Enhance cybersecurity awareness and survivability for DoD, industry partners, and academia in the face of the ever-increasing threat of cyber attacks. Cybersecurity (CS) includes managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information and the systems and processes used for those purposes, including analog and physical form. CS includes information availability, identification and authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation as well as the economic considerations with respect to selection of CS techniques, CS processes, and industry trends.
Corona Virus Pandemic offers opportunity for Threat Actors to Steal Info
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gocharles 8 months, 1 week ago.
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Due to job sites closing and allowing employees to work from home there has been more activity from threat actors to access information. Employees are using personal computers to carry on the day to day and these computers are not as safe and secure as those on the job site making information less secure.
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As more workers are sent to work from home it’s becoming a nightmare for companies to protect their assets and are opening a vulnerability for a cyberattack as most workers are not familiar on how to access corporate networks. It is critical for companies to develop and implement network access protocols in order to minimize the risk of a cyber attack.
This is a very interesting article from Forbes in the number of cyberattacks identify by a cyber security company is a period of 7 hrs.
2,500 Attacks In Less Than A Day: Coronavirus Scammers Just Went Into Overdrive
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Security threats increase because of increased work from home. Some people are still struggling with the process of switching to working at home. A lack of IT resources for workers at home could make people more vulnerable to attacks. Companies will have to instruct their workers on how to keep company information safe.
https://threatpost.com/coronavirus-poll-cyberattacks-work-from-home/153958/
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Other than company attacks many threat actors (including espionage actors) are attempting to phish civilians with ploys of ways to prevent covid-19 or from school & other company’s “health teams” with claims of having important updates.
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Other than phishing, Governments across the world are rushing to build or use open source applications without proper care about security issues. The department of Health and human services just relaxed HIPAA requirements for telemedicine services. This opens the door for attacks to weaker systems that will contain sensitive information from citizens.
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Cyber threats to Canadian health organizations
https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/alerts/cyber-threats-canadian-health-organizations -
As many general public are not very well aware of the cyber security threats, so the threat actors posting coronavirus related phishing methods can steal information from users, or create a botnets for big sophisticated DDOS attacks on big organizations.
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