MUMBAI: Cybersecurity firm McAfee has found a correlation between the increased use of cloud services and collaboration tools, such as Cisco WebEx, Zoom and Microsoft Teams, and a rise in cyberattacks targeting the cloud during the covid-19 pandemic.
Based on data from more than 30 million McAfee MVISION Cloud users worldwide between January and April, the research found a 50% increase in the use of cloud services, access from unmanaged devices and the rise of cloud-native threats by 630%.
Access to the cloud by unmanaged, personal devices doubled, increasing risk for security professionals working to keep their data secure in the cloud. “We are witnessing an explosive increase in remote working and adoption of collaborative tools across