There is one thing in common with Covid-19 and malware: COVID-19 is potentially affecting the entire population on earth and malware has the potential to affect everyone that is online, i.e. half of the world at least. Ok, lesson learned, but what’s next? Is this virus going to change the way we live and work forever? Should we take additional precautions now that we are living in an ongoing pandemic? Everybody understand now the importance of being more aware of real viruses, what about the digital ones? If such a pandemic would happen in the digital world, would we be ready for a lock-down? Knowing that this option is not really feasible in the digital world, how can we replicate this awareness to protect our daily lives and ensure continuity?
Is this virus going to change the way we live and work for a while?
Must likely
Are we taking additional precautions now that we are living on a ongoing pandemic, also on the virtual world?
It depends (I hope so)
So many questions are unanswered today but, precisely because of this, there are opportunities we should consider. We were forced to STOP and this virus it gave us the chance to think, question and understand better everything we have been doing so far. Is it enough? 2020 gives us the chance to reflect on what we could do differently or more efficiently in order to innovate and improve safety and security. Maybe there is a new balance to find between availability, integrity and confidentiality by including usability and awareness from the inception.
Below a small table with a reflection of these two worlds that are changing our daily lives and how our thinking sometimes can be similar on both worlds.
….are they really two worlds or it is becoming more only one? sudo -K
| Cybersecurity malware | Covid 19/other virus |
| It will not happen to me, my data is not important | That’s happening on far away countries and not to me. |
| I heard that it happened to a friend of a friend of mine but I’m not sure it could happen to me | I don’t know anybody with that virus. |
| OK it could happen to me any time | This is happening just right here! |
| What else do I need to do to protect myself? | The virus has changed so many things on my daily life |
| It happened already to me, and other people I know they got a a ransomware | The virus is affecting people closer to me unfortunately in a larger or smaller extent. |
| Am I at risk? | How can I reduce my risk to get infected? |
| I’m not sure how much longer I need to keep doing this to be protected MFA + Token + Bio-metrics (Behavior analysis?) What else? | Another Virus coming? OMG! |
| What again I was hacked!! I thought I was protected! | I thought I was immune! |
| I knew I was at risk but probably never took enough precautions | I hope is not too late, I’ll focus on what is really important now, instead of fake news. |
Google this below it is a good start 😉
cyber security + awareness + gartner quadrant “image”
coronavirus (covid-19) facts + risks mitigation