Journal Entry 4

With the spreading of COVID, the U.S. including many other countries around the world brings more risks to cybersecurity. Since many countries are practicing social distancing, a lot of people have begun operating things at home through their own computers. There are many problems with this. One of them is that employees are accessing business resources through their homes which makes it easier for attackers to gain access to sensitive data. Although some businesses have already allowed their employees to work from home before COVID started, these businesses have already developed a stronger security for its business network. Since a lot of other businesses have not yet allowed their employees to work from home, their security measures might not be as good the other businesses who having already been doing this before COVID. Because everyone suddenly has to practice social distancing, those businesses are forced to change how they operate without much time for preparations. Because they are forced into doing something unprepared, they most likely do not have a strong security system to set in place. Since many people are forced to go out less, this means that people will mostly likely be spending most of their time on the internet because they most likely have nothing to do. This could be a bad thing because individuals might come across more scams or links that contain viruses on them. Fashion is presently a popular topic. Because people are not able to go to a physical clothing store, they will most likely buy more clothes at an online store. Since there is COVID, attacker will most likely take advantage of this pandemic to scam people into buying from their online clothing stores. Creating fake online clothing stores is a way for attackers to steal and use debit or credit card information.