At an online town hall experts debated the impact of coronavirus on cybersecurity and privacy. Read their initial impressions
But with many employees working from home all of a sudden everyone is doing who knows what over what endpoints over what networks, accessing what resources … and a lot of controls like identity and access management we put in to mitigate the risks have gone out the window. The risk-reward equation now is totally out of balance because the reward is ‘I get to stay in business. So I’m going to take on a lot of risks to allow that to happen … We’re going to do things now that a few months ago we might have said, ‘That’s a stupid decision. It’s not worth the risk.’ Today it’s different.