A descriptive study on cybersecurity challenges of working from home during COVID-19 pandemic and a proposed 8 step WFH cyber-attack mitigation plan

Sebastian, G.

Organizations struggle to strike the right balance between flexibility and security for remote work. With the major portion of the workforce in every country working from home during the covid-19 pandemic, employers might not have accounted for this scale of load on their IT infrastructure, not to mention their cybersecurity preparedness. Cybercriminals have been working to exploit this unpreparedness with regards to IT Infrastructure. The purpose of this study is to discuss increased cybersecurity risks of work from home due to Covid-19 pandemic, and as part of the study, a WFH cyber-attack mitigation framework has been proposed with eight simple but effective steps to mitigate and prevent these cyber-attacks. Copyright © 2021. Glorin SEBASTIAN. Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0International CC-BY 4.0