Post-Pandemic Frontier of Cybersecurity: 6 Top Challenges

Since 2020, the cybersecurity sector has observed various attack methods that take advantage of the strain on digital platforms caused by the pandemic. However, these malicious activities are often disguised and hard to detect.

The Impact of the Pandemic on Cybersecurity
As the cyber security community becomes more conscious of the various tactics employed by hackers, such as mirroring applications, misusing data, and identity theft, they encounter several hurdles that are a direct result of the pandemic.

1.      Increased Load on Device Monitoring and Management

The quick transition to a hybrid work model allowed organizations to maintain operations, but it also brought in a significant number of vulnerable devices into the corporate network, requiring rigorous security best practices.

During global lockdowns, keeping operations running was crucial, leading many employees to use their personal laptops, mobile devices, and home internet for work purposes, resulting in a massive increase in the number of devices that had to be covered under data security best practices.

2.      Reduced Insight and Authority over User Actions

With employees working from their homes and other remote places, organizations have limited insight and authority over their devices and actions. Monitoring each device in the enterprise ecosystem and guaranteeing each connection's security has been a significant hurdle to ensuring robust cybersecurity.

This lack of visibility not only hinders governance, but it also disrupts business operations and jeopardizes the end-user experience.

3.      Insufficient Security Measures

Work devices, which used to be limited to the physical corporate offices, have now spread out into an unmonitored environment during and after the pandemic. With businesses rapidly altering their operations to align with the remote workplace experience, uninterrupted work processes and endpoint protection became more important than ensuring the security of remote workspaces and devices.

Unfortunately, the current security measures don’t cut it anymore due to the ever-expanding network of physical and virtual devices across various locations and regions.

4.      Expanding Range of Threats

Since remote work policies were put into action, the scope of potential cybersecurity threats has expanded exponentially. With the need to provide cybersecurity threat assessment for not only the enterprise network of physical devices but also personal laptops and smartphones, as well as a variety of secured and unsecured VoIP and VPN networks, organizations have struggled to keep pace with the growing range of information security threats.

5.      Legal and Regulatory Challenges

Traditionally, accessing corporate systems remotely through VPNs and other networks required more stringent access management. However, that took a backseat for remote workplaces. This has resulted in security risks that compromise the ecosystem strategy, leading to various legal and regulatory challenges.

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