External attacks on cloud accounts increase by 630% with WFH: McAfee

PUNE: External cyberattacks on cloud services and collaboration tools like WebEx and Zoom increased by 630% between January and April, cybersecurity firm McAfee said on Wednesday

In a study titled ‘Cloud Adoption & Risk Report – Work-from-Home Edition’, based on anonymized and aggregated data from more than 30 million McAfee MVISION Cloud users worldwide, the firm revealed potentially long-lasting trends that include an increase in the use of cloud services, access from unmanaged devices and the rise of cloud-native threats.

These trends emphasize the need for new security delivery models in the distributed work-from-home environment of today – and likely the future, the report said.