CYBER PANDEMIC AND CYBER CAUTION IN THE WAKE OF COVID-19

The COVID-19 global pandemic has forced the business community, academic institutions and individuals to embrace new practices such as social distancing and remote working. The pandemic has taught the business community the inestimable value of the digital space, with the popularization of lockdown measures and movement restrictions, technology has been the means of connecting to the outer world. Schools now learn via digital platforms, religious centers now use digital platforms to communicate with their worshippers, even the health sector where physical consultations are the prescribed norm, the usage of software like Telemedicine i.e. diagnosis and treatment by videoconferencing, are now being implemented by Health Techs like Helium Health. While racing to halt the virus and to trigger the economy, governments globally are reconsidering ways to ensure that their countries are stable by developing and enforcing new economic policies. However, since the world is focused on the health and economic threats posed by COVID-19, cyber criminals around the world undoubtedly are capitalizing on this crisis to breach security firewalls with the popular “twitter crypto hack” , business email compromise, and installation of ransomwares on devices of individuals.