Cyber Security

Vulnerabilities and cyber-attacks risks under Covid-19 pandemics

By Félix Grimán Cybersecurity expert

The way business used to run is, right now, forced to change paradigms from those we all knew and dealt with on a day-to-day basis, due to the need of “Social Distancing” provoked by the new virus that is affecting people worldwide and taking more than a quarter million lives around the world.

The risk of contagion that a person undergoes, has led to Remote Working, also known as Work From Home, bringing as a first consequence having to access the company's information from places that, in most cases, do not have adequate and/or standard levels of security, to protect that information from being intercepted, stolen and used by cyber thieves.

Now more than ever, secure connection and encryption technologies are necessary, which many companies, whatever they might be, do not possess because they haven’t had the need to have their employees working remotely.

Company premises

So far, those with adequate levels of security are applied only to safeguard the information within the premises and networks of the company, but not at the workers’ home private LAN through an ISP.

This, of course, also includes the shipping industry. Although many shipping companies may have high levels of digital and communication security on their vessels, this is not necessarily the case in offices on the mainland, much less in work spaces outside the technological infrastructure of the business.

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