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COVID-19 Expands the Cyber Threat Surface (from Security Magazine)

Business operating changes driven by the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped the cybersecurity threat landscape and materially expanded the threat surface as enterprises virtualized and employees have been been forced to work from home, moving outside of the "secured" perimeter of enterprise networks. With the changes, entirely new threat vectors have opened up as attackers look to exploit the "work from home" paradigm...

The FBI recently reported that the number of attack complaints in their Cyber Division has reached as many as 4,000 a day – a 400% increase from what it was seeing pre-COVID-19. Meanwhile, a study by CrowdStrike, a Silicon Valley cybersecurity vendor, showed more intrusion attempts on corporate networks in the first six months of 2020 than in all of 2019.

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