[Willy Vazquez]

In 2020, the pandemic made a lot of companies move from working in person to working remote. This may have been good for some people, but the companies probably did not see it that way. With such a sudden switch this may have left some companies vulnerable to attacks while they transitioned. Especially for companies that were not made or had a poor structure for remote work were the most vulnerable at this time. Paired with being home instead of at work employees may have used their personal devices to do their work. These devices were more than likely not set up to be as secure as the devices in their work place. The World Economic Forum reported that COVID-19 was the cause of a fifty percent increase in cybersecurity attacks, 30,000 of which were COVID-19 related. These attacks were scams, malware, or ransomware designed around the fear of COVID-19 at the time.