COVID-19 and Preparing for Changing Cybersecurity Risks

This blog provides practical cybersecurity guidance for organizations forced to rapidly adopt remote work due to COVID-19, covering capacity planning (VPN/licenses/stress testing), patch and update continuity, risks from insecure home networks and IoT devices, increased phishing and social-engineering using pandemic-themed pretexts, the importance of identity verification for remote transactions, physical security of on-site assets, monitoring and anomaly detection, and cross-training/documentation to maintain business continuity.