Question

prepare a 300-500 word document answering the following questions:

• Applying theories form this course, how may a remote working increase security risks?
• Does remote work increase or decrease physical security risks?
• Research current news topics on COVID-19 impacts on Cybersecurity and answer the following question:
  • What are the greatest vulnerabilities (per the articles you find - you must cite your sources) that are a result of COVID-19 response?

Answer 1

Remote Working:

It is the way of working that allows professional to work from home. Most of the researches concluded that remote working is more effective compared to on site working.Reason for this increased productivity is they have better work life balance due to flexible working hours. Recent studies reported that remote workers are more happier in their jobs than on site workers.

There are lots of security issues associated with remote working. Here we discuss main three risk associate with remote working.

• Unsecure network: Usage of public wifi for remote working is too risky.Employers in the company should avoid untrusted networks.
• Cyber attacks: Almost 93% of the cyber attacks are phishing attack. It is the common method for hackers to access sensitive data.
• Computer sharing: It leads to potential security risks by sharing computer with family members.

​​​​​​​​​​​Some suggestions for employees doing remote work:

• Avoid public wifi.
• Encrypt the sensitive data while sending an email.
• Do not share devices used for remote working with anyone.

COVID 19 is an opportunity to hackers because most of the businesses are running through online. Most of the IT departments are busy with developing collaborative software . It can synchronize employees but actually it increases security risks. Hackers can easily access to these type of softwares.Cybercriminals are using the heightened digital footprint and traffic to find vulnerabilities. They also use temporary websites to host malicious code. (How covid 19 is dramatically changeing cyber security by Prashanth Deo, Geettil Raj, Ramesh Perumal, Santha Subramanian).