Cyber Risk Post Pandemic….Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse. Just when you thought you could relax (a teeny bit) and hope that we will get back to normal. 

…but life isn’t like that sometimes. As business owners, as managers, as leaders in your companies- we double down, we pivot, and we plan for a still uncertain but certainly rocky future. We are masters of resilience and grit, determination and vision. Right now, companies of all industries and sizes who have been able to weather the storm so far are staring at the horizon, hoping to find a path through to stability. But it’s not smooth sailing just yet. 

Getting hacked after surviving this economic and global pandemic is like surviving COVID but then getting stung by a giant murder hornet.

The Easy Jet Breach, the PWC website hack, Travelex, GoDaddy, MGM and more in the first 5 months of 2020, and especially the last 8 weeks- clearly demonstrates that we’re not out of woods in terms of major cyber risks which could result in business disruption or dissolution. While people agreed that the lockdown was necessary to limit the spread of COVID-19, it has also introduced security risks that have caught organisations off guard. From Zoom accounts being sold on the dark web to Covid phishing scams, PPP Loan fraud and the SMS Smishing explosion it’s been almost too much to wrap your head around on a weekly basis as the digital landscape changes and evolves.