Employees have become a weak-link amidst Covid-19. The  crisis has seen an upsurge use of technology in unprecedented ways. Many companies and even government institutions have adopted a work-from-home routine, some having to also adopt a ‘bring your own device policy.

This move has increased organisational risk and cyber-security etiquette has begun shifting to the end users. As a result, the most prevalent attack vectors going around include phishing and social engineering.

According to cyber-security firm Kaspersky, there has been a rise in business email compromise (BEC) attacks whose objective is to compromise business correspondence for the purpose of committing financial fraud by access to confidential information and exploiting it. Also Data from the National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team Coordination Center (National KE-CIRT/CC) indicates that 87 percent of cyber-threat advisories were due to system vulnerabilities. 

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