"The SOC Emergency Room Faces Malware Pandemic"

Security professionals can learn from countries that have responded rapidly and firmly to the spread of COVID-19 to develop new ways to protect their organizations from hacking. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, security operation center (SOC) and information technology (IT) teams are getting overwhelmed like the doctors and nurses in severely affected areas due to understaffing. Now that there is a higher volume of remote workers because of the outbreak, it has become harder for organizations to identify unusual remote logins and devices on their networks. In addition, many employees lack cybersecurity awareness, thus putting themselves and their organizations at a higher risk of falling victim to attacks, such as spear phishing and credential theft. Security teams are encouraged to adopt a similar approach to that of countries that have successfully taken on COVID-19, which includes implementing strategies to prevent problems before they get worse, conducting centralized security monitoring over distributed environments, focussing on sensitive assets, isolating infecting hosts early, and more. This article continues to discuss what security professionals can learn from the healthcare industry's response to the pandemic, security challenges presented by the increase in remote workers, the steps that security teams should take to protect their organizations, and the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to assist in security monitoring. 

Dark Reading reports "The SOC Emergency Room Faces Malware Pandemic"