Security News > 2020 > October > Cyber Warriors Sound Warning on Working From Home

Cyber warriors on NATO's eastern edge are warning that the growing number of people working from home globally due to the pandemic is increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks.

The Baltic state of Estonia hosts two cyber facilities for the Western military alliance - set up following a series of cyber attacks from neighbour Russia more than a decade ago.

"Specialists have set up the work infrastructure, but they cannot control the way people use their home internet or how secure it is," said Mihkel Tikk, head of the Estonian defence ministry's cyber policy department.

The NATO Cyber Defence Centre said the silver lining is the growing popularity of the cyber security courses it is putting online.

"So I think it is relatively more difficult to harm Estonia than many other countries who perhaps are not so used to working via cyberspace and haven't given too much attention to cyber defence," he said.

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