Security News > 2021 > March > Forrester: These 5 threats could hobble pandemic recovery
A new report from Forrester is giving enterprises a path forward out of the pandemic with a serious security warning: There are five major problems, and five attack vectors, which could slow post-pandemic progress in 2021.
The five greatest threats to businesses in 2021 will be different from those in 2020, but Forrester is predicting the attack vectors used by cybercriminals to be similar to those from last year.
Security professionals will need to keep tabs on those five threat vectors, but they aren't the only things that could slow pandemic recovery operations.
In addition to those five attack types, there are five emerging types of threats that will be dangerous in 2021, and those five threats could use the aforementioned attack vectors to achieve attacker objectives.
Forrester recommends that security pros in the healthcare and government sectors, as well as those that supply them, leverage information from sources like the Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center in order to keep up on current threats, counter misinformation and ensure cyberattacks don't slow pandemic recovery.
"Web application providers: Work with your bot management vendor to cut off the bots-as-a-service business model. Manufacturers whose merchandise is sold by other websites: Educate your sellers about bots as a service and ask about their bot management implementations," Forrester said.