Cybersecurity Staff Shortage During Covid-19 Impacts Businesses Worldwide

ESG’s 2019 survey reports that around 53% of business organizations have a deficit of cybersecurity staff. Another research by (ISC)2 says that there is a shortage of about 4 Million cybersecurity staff, meaning that organizations would require a growth rate of 142% to fill the staff deficit in the future. Earlier, there was no exact data to predict how much the COVID-19 problem would impact this issue. However, currently, it is quite clear that the pandemic situation is proving to be problematic. The coronavirus situation has compelled companies and their employees to work from home. 

The WFH trend may be beneficial for the companies, but it also raises attacks from hackers and criminal actors. The issue requires organizations and employees to be cautious while working from home, keeping productive strategies and effectiveness in mind all the time. Working from home, employees have to use safe communication platforms to be safe from cyberattacks and hackers. According to Infosecurity, “the loss of sensitive patient information is not the only cybersecurity threat. Taking advantage of a less secure employee environment, cyber-criminals have intensified their attempts at gaining access to sensitive data by using social engineering techniques. A report from Microsoft states that there are around 30,000 attacks per day that exploit this method.” 

Besides this, the most important thing is building secure cyberspace for sharing company files over the internet. “Cybersecurity military officers go through intensive training and acquire a wide range of skills to protect their country from foreign invasion of cyber-capabilities, so it is no wonder big tech companies often seek out the most skilled officers. You should pay attention to military veterans from this field since many of them remain jobless,” reports Infosecurity.