Old threats in a new guise

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"Basically, the threat posed by cybercrime is not new, quite the opposite: In principle, these are largely known dangers, but with a Corona-specific twist," explains Dennis Schröder, Team Leader Cyber ​​Security & Privacy at TÜViT.

"The corona pandemic is forcing companies to act quickly. Unfortunately, quality assurance often falls victim to time pressure. Short-term remote access is more prone to errors and temporarily issued additional work equipment may not be properly secured."

This means that companies should upgrade overseas chinese in worldwide data if necessary and protect their IT infrastructure with appropriate measures, such as firewalls, secure VPN access points or access authorizations to central services and servers.

"Performing penetration tests in particular helps to identify and close existing security gaps. In this context, our IT security experts (so-called "ethical hackers") attack the IT infrastructure components accessible on the Internet on behalf of companies and put them to the (security) test. Remote access and clients are at the center of these 'hacker attacks', which are coordinated with the customer," explains Dirk Kretzschmar.