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The importance of sandboxing for SMBs
When the pandemic first struck and countries across the globe went into lockdown, governments, businesses and communities were forced to completely recalibrate their ways of working as they learnt to adapt to this entirely unprecedented threat. Simultaneously, organizations were forced to adapt to an entirely different kind of threat.
About the author
Thorsten Kurpjun is Security Marketing Development Manager at Zyxel Networks.
By April 2020, cyberattackers had started to take advantage of the instability that the pandemic had caused for businesses, hacking large, multinational corporations including the likes of Magellan Health, Marriott Hotels and the World Health Organisation.
Now in this current threat landscape, it is all but inevitable that a business will become the target of a hacker in some shape or form. To prevent malicious actors from causing irreparable financial and reputational damage, businesses must ensure that they are equipped with every preventative measure in their arsenal.
A changing threat landscape
Although large corporations were the primary target for hackers during the initial wave of the pandemic, reports are indicating that this trend has shifted and SMBs are now most at risk from cyberattacks. Hackers have started to pivot towards smaller organizations because, although there is a lower maximum gain, they have a higher chance of success due to the lack of sophisticated cybersecurity defenses SMBs typically have in place.
In addition, SMBs also stand to lose the most if they are exposed to an attack. Reports show that 60% of SMBs go out of business within six months of a data breach. As a result, smaller companies have no choice but to acquiesce to ransomware requests, making them the prime target for hackers.
Similarly, just as cyberattackers have shifted their focus from larger corporations to SMBs, they have also altered their style of attacks. For example, the proportion of malicious email traffic increased from 12% at pre-pandemic levels, to more than 60% just six weeks after the UK’s first lockdown was announced.
Even more alarmingly, cyber criminals are becoming more sophisticated in their attacks and are exploiting unknown software security flaws…
