The pandemic upended a lot of things in the business world, but one thing it accelerated was remote access. More staff than ever before worked from home and systems and platforms like Zoom got the kind of attention and publicity money can’t buy.
Organizations both large and small scrambled to migrate applications and data to the cloud, embracing the hybrid cloud model so we could access work from our home devices. The remote worker age finally arrived en masse.
However, some platforms simply hadn’t been built for the new threat landscape and were left scrambling to patch vulnerabilities even as users and data generation skyrocketed. Since then, cyber attacks have risen sharply. During the first quarter of 2024, a report by security provider Check Point Research recorded a 28% surge in the number of cyber attacks compared to the previous quarter.
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