Cyber attacks on council workers increase over 200 percent

guest · Jul 23, 2021

Cyber attacks on council workers increase over 200 percent
July 23, 2021
https://betanews.com/2021/07/23/cyber-attacks-council-workers-increase/

Local councils have faced the same pressure as commercial businesses to have people working at home during the pandemic. But a new report shows attacks on UK councils' remote workers rose by 213 percent from March 2020 compared to the previous year.

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests made by technology solutions provider Insight, show that on average councils switched 74 percent of their employees -- more than double the UK average -- to remote working during the pandemic.

"However, councils now need to build on this success: putting in place and strengthening defences to protect remote workers and eliminate gaps in security that could allow attackers to threaten essential services. It's likely that many councils cannot do this alone. They need support and resources from central government, or else we will see more and more employees and councils falling victim to attackers."
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Less than half (47 percent) of councils invested more of their security budget in increased security training for remote workers. At the same time, only six percent prevented any employees from working remotely because it wasn't possible to guarantee secure access to data.
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