Over the past year and a half, while the world has been immersed in the global coronavirus pandemic, another threat has grown in number and scale. With people working from home, there have been increased vulnerabilities in how corporations and organizations work. These include the management and monitoring of infrastructure — these new vulnerabilities have been exploited by a growing number of increasingly sophisticated hackers.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Michael Parent from Simon Fraser University and David Beatty at the University of Toronto write about the impacts of these cyberattacks, which have grown to the point where they are threatening infrastructure. The authors write that to combat them, we’ll need to consider “widely accessible but tightly controlled websites with stringent access controls to prevent criminal activity, much like the closed corporate intranets that gained popularity two decades ago.”

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