{"id":822,"date":"2020-04-10T17:24:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T17:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpprod.pax8.com\/?post_type=crb_news&p=822"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:42:36","slug":"covid-19-coming-together-while-apart-more-important-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"crb_news","link":"https:\/\/www.pax8.com\/en-apac\/news-post\/covid-19-coming-together-while-apart-more-important-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Coming Together (While Staying Apart) is More Important Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past month, irrespective of who or where you are, it\u2019s evident that our world is changing as we respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether allowing employees to work remotely, advancing groundbreaking medical research, facilitating distance learning for students, or helping maintain relationships with friends and loved ones, technology is playing a more important role in our lives than ever. Unfortunately, there are some who seek to take advantage of this expanded reliance on technology. Responding to this elevated risk of cyberthreats requires that we adopt new practices, tools and techniques to cope with a proliferation of cybercriminals seeking to wreak havoc or make a quick buck.<\/p>\n

Over recent weeks, the Cybersecurity Tech Accord signatories have seen the COVID-19 pandemic being purposefully used to take advantage of the most vulnerable. Panda has found evidence of an ATP using the pandemic in a spearfishing campaign against public sector entities. Microsoft has fought against human-operated ransomware attacks looking for vulnerable systems, and we collectively saw reports of attacking against the World Health Organization, and even hospitals. It is more important than ever for companies, governments and consumers to remember that maintaining a strong cyber security posture is the best line of defense to protect our online environment. It\u2019s in everyone\u2019s interest, and we all have a part to play.<\/p>\n

As part of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord principles, signatories such as Pax8, are committed to helping empower users, customers and developers to strengthen their cybersecurity protections. Many signatories (and others) have provided resources, tips and suggestions on how to act securely and safely online in today\u2019s elevated threat environment, as well as offered access to tools to help. Rather than reinventing the wheel, we have collected these resources in one place (below). The list is not exhaustive as companies are adding new resources and insights daily; however, we hope it represents useful resources for:<\/p>\n