Security News > 2021 > April > What COVID-19 Taught Us: Prepping Cybersecurity for the Next Crisis

Sivan Tehila, cybersecurity strategist at Perimeter 81, discusses climate change and the cyber-resilience lessons companies should take away from dealing with the pandemic.

While COVID-19 caught many businesses off guard, smart executives are already thinking about the next global crisis and what challenges it might present for IT security.

A climate change-related crisis with widespread disruptions would likely provide bad actors similarly ideal conditions for deception.

A climate change-related crisis would likely impact an organization's systems in some way.

More than anything, climate change will require companies to improve independency so they are not so reliant on existing legacy technology or other service providers for data, security or infrastructure.

If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it's that transformative change is possible even in the most trying circumstances.

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https://threatpost.com/covid-19-prepping-cybersecurity-crisis/165472/