Cybersecurity Threats Mitigation and Preventive Strategies amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Naveen Kumar Chaudhary · NFSU Journal of Cyber Security Digital Forensic · 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic is an immense humanitarian crisis that has severely affected the society and the global economy.The rapid and unexpectedly broad disruption to businesses around the world has left companies struggling to maintain security and business continuity.There is an increased reliance on digital platform for day-to-day activities due to the imposition of lockdown, social distancing and stay-at-home orders.The cyber criminals are taking advantage of the pandemic situation and targeting people and businesses.Cyber security has taken a center stage amid COVID-19 pandemic.This paper discusses the cyber security threats the world is facing in this unprecedented crisis.The associated technical and security challenges and suggests suitable mitigation and prevention strategies that include building a secure peer-to-peer virtual private network for remote access based on an open source software platform.