As threats increase during the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses need to be focused on implementing technological solutions and investing in employee education to achieve basic security hygiene.

When employees aren’t used to working from home, their home networks generally aren’t secured to a corporate standard. This creates vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can leverage.

Research shows that nearly 60% of organisations that suffered a data breach in the two years between 2016 and 2018 fell victim to a known vulnerability with patches available.

One of the most serious disconnects between CISOs and other business leaders is their approach to the reasonable care standard for security and resiliency, Wavelink says.