Network operators are out to throw all available resources at adding the requisite capacity to cope with the unprecedented levels of traffic.
This is as the current Coronavirus pandemic forces hundreds of millions of people across the world to work and study from home,
But as operators deploy all hands to the pump in order to guarantee network availability, a swathe of cyber criminals are waiting in the ranks to bring their operations crashing to a halt.
Indeed, a recent report by Kaspersky suggested that there had been as many as 726 million confirmed cyber-attacks since the start of the year, putting 2020 on course to rack up somewhere in the region of 1.5 billion cyber-attacks for the year.
With connectivity now more essential to our daily lives than ever before, the potential ‘rewards’ for cyber criminals have grown exponentially. As next generation connectivity pervades every aspect of our daily lives – from the way we shop to the way we bank and manage our financial lives – the ramifications of a network outage, or of data theft magnify exponentially.
Gone are the days when the biggest network security issue might have been loss of service or an eavesdropped private conversation. In our interconnected, digital world, the consequences of a security breach are far more significant.
Kaspersky’s research suggests that 46 per cent of those people working from home are doing so for the first time.
