The Christmas shopping season is in full swing. This year, online retailers pushed the boundaries with “Black/ White/ Yellow Friday” deals in the hopes of improving their online sales, thanks to the uncertainty around in-store shopping due to COVID-19, leading many customers to make their purchases from the safety of their own homes.

The Acronis Cyber Readiness Report reveals that as hackers target remote workers, phishing, distributed denial of service (DDoS), and videoconferencing attacks are the most common tactics used.

From January through August, 45% of SIRT reported incidents were related to DDoS and 43% were password login attacks. The remaining 12% were reported incidents for things like malware infections, web attacks, or attacks that were not classified.

The challenge for organizations is that managing the protection of data across the company network and all of those new devices using a stack of different solutions is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated.

The COVID-19 pandemic was the genesis of this new opportunity as the disease continues to impact businesses and economies worldwide. The net result is that 2020 has become the year of the teleworker. The use of online services from home and other remote locations became more critical than ever. Students are online.