SOFTWARE
71 % of security professionals saw security threats increase due to COVID-19
600 % increase in phishing attacks during the pandemic
“ We have seen a surge in social engineering attacks focusing on the children of target individuals ”
PHIL SAYER BCN GROUP
equally disruptive ripples across the surface of entire industries . Just look at data centre security , for example .
Unprecedented Disruption “ The data centre industry post-pandemic is certainly facing a few tough challenges ,” says Ashley Buckland , a Managing Director at JB Associates . Buckland adds that , “ with the new norm for many business sectors to work from home , we can expect to see an immediate strong demand to supply increased capacity ,” which he foresees having several knock-on effects , from the rising cost of materials to an impending skill shortage and growing pressure to embrace more sustainable practice .
$ 8.19mn average cost of a data breach to a US company
36bn number of records exposed by data breaches in the first half of 2020
However , there ’ s another area of the industry that ’ s been just as significantly disrupted by the pandemic ( and the resultant shift to remote work ): security . The combination of higher demand , growth in the remote workforce , a massive proliferation in the number of devices belonging to the Internet of Things ( IoT ) connected to private networks , and the ever-increasing dollar-value of sensitive data means that cyber security in the data centre industry is facing more challenges than ever before .
Phil Sayer , a Senior Project Engineer at BCN Group , has witnessed the spike in cyber threat as a resume of mass remote work first hand over the past year . “ During the height of the pandemic , criminals changed their approach to increase the use of phishing attacks due to the shift from office working to
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