WFH triggers increased e-collaboration, cyber threats, finds study

As the Covid-19 lockdown has forced companies to allow their staff to work from home, there has been a sharp increase in the use of cloud-based e-collaboration tools. It’s not just employees of IT companies, a bulk of the workforce of firms across verticals have moved home to carry out work.

Cyber security solutions company McAfee has said the use of cloud collaboration tools has gone up by six times from January to April this year.

McAfee says this has a direct bearing on cyber attacks. Citing a survey that it conducted capturing anonymised data, the company said cyber attacks, too, have gone up by six times during the period.