As organizations increasingly leverage cloud-based applications and look at another year of working from home, security professionals predict increased security threats in 2021 and cybercriminal activity. Some estimates have increased attacks during the pandemic at 400% or more. Global cybercrime costs are expected to grow by 15% per year over the next five years, reaching…
Last month, the FBI Cyber Division reported that, since COVID-19 hit and Shelter-in-Place (SIP) mandates took effect, the average number of cyber security complaints has risen to 4,000 complaints per day. That is astonishing compared to pre-COVID numbers, which average to around 1,000 complaints per day. There are several factors contributing to this spike in…
Bad-actors, hackers, cyber-criminals, and other kinds of cyber creeps are out and about, and yes, they want company and personal data (information). Their motives and desired objectives and methods differ (and that’s a matter for discussion at another time), but the threat is always present. People like me (who work every day in the cyber-security…