Cyber security teams already confessed to being overworked before COVID-19 – battling simply to keep their heads above a constant tide of security alerts, across numerous tools and reports. High profile security breaches, with malware at their root, were a seemingly weekly occurrence.

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are an added burden to the cyber risks security operations centre (SOC) teams are battling against. In this research report sponsored by Malwarebytes, learn how SOC professionals were reacting to the rise in remote working, especially the increased susceptibility of employees to malware attacks; identify how such attacks have changed in terms of scale and sophistication; and examine the importance of quickly isolating and remediating an attack.