Many factors have combined to make cybercrime the scourge of our times. It can be committed from anywhere, repeatedly and anonymously, so the risks to perpetrators are few. Money and information are valuable targets, so the rewards of fraud and hacking can be great. And the disruption to a country or an organisation that a cyber attack can cause can be a potent instrument of power or extortion, or can give a commercial advantage to a competitor.
The pandemic has added fuel to the fire, forcing even those with no digital experience to go online to provide or to obtain services as never before. Add to that the number of employees suddenly thrown into the unfamiliar territory of working from home, and you have yet another layer of data security issues for organisations to address, often almost overnight. In today’s parlance, it is a perfect storm.
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