Security News > 2020 > May > Cybercriminals targeting cloud services amid shift to remote working
The move to remote working spurred by the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in the use of cloud services.
Based on cloud-usage data from 30 million McAfee MVISION cloud users between January and April 2020, the security provider found a 50% increase overall in the use of cloud services.
"The risk of threat actors targeting the cloud far outweighs the risk brought on by changes in employee behavior," Rajiv Gupta, senior vice president of Cloud Security for McAfee, said in a press release.
Enterprises need to shift their focus to data in the cloud and to cloud-native security services so they can maintain full visibility and control with a remote, distributed workforce.
Implement a cloud-based secure web gateway so that corporate devices are protected against web-based threats without requiring routing through a VPN.Allow employees to connect to sanctioned cloud services from their corporate devices without using their VPN by protecting data with a cloud access security broker.