Cybersecurity experts predict that cyber attacks will be twice as what happened in 2019. In 2021 it is predicted that a cyber attack will be reported every 11 seconds which is twice what it was in 2019 (every 19 seconds).

2. With the Pandemic still lurking around for
another year of doubt and unpredictability, the
awareness for Cybersecurity and what 2021
holds for the cyber world is crucial to predict
strategic responses for the challenges of a new
year.

3. Cybersecurity experts predict that cyber attacks will be twice as
what happened in 2019.
It is predicted that Cybercrimes will cost the global
economy $6.1 trillion annually and the pandemic is
helping it.

4. The remote working and the work at home
culture that has been adopted in the face of
pandemic builds a virtual framework that can be
easily exploited.
Cyber Attacks in the pandemic

5. Pandemic and its corresponding dependency on
virtual platforms and remote working have given
rise to cyber attacks through over 4,000
malicious COVID sites which popped up just in
the first months of the pandemic.

6. Unlike previous years, companies are less negligent and more watchful for
the cyber issues they might face in the coming year. More companies now
take the issue of cybersecurity seriously and thus look for papers such as
“trends”, ” Findings “, “cyber issues”, ” Recommended solutions”, “actions
required” or “Themes” to describe what happened, what is coming next and
what needs to be done now to be prepared for 2021 and beyond.
It is predicted that in 2021, more attacks than in 2020 will occur on home
computers and networks by taking advantage of architecture weaknesses.
With the widely scattered workforce and the increasing use of cloud, there
will be more security holes, challenges misconfigurations, and outages.
Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) attacks will be widely found from
cybercriminals. Using Cryptocurrency, cybercriminals will play new roles
with hiding advantages.

7. Nation State-Sponsored Cyber Attacks
in 2021
According to the
2020 CrowdStrike Global Security Attitude Survey report,
Cybersecurity experts predicts that nation-state sponsored Cyber attacks will be the
biggest threat for 2021.

8. In the survey, 73% of respondents believe that
nation-state-sponsored cyber attacks will pose
the single biggest threat to organizations like
theirs in 2021. The growing geopolitical tension
across the globe and major countries is the
growing reason for such predictions about state-
sponsored cyber attacks.

9. ANOTHER MAJOR CYBER ATTACK IS CAUSED BY RANSOMWARE ATTACKS
50 % of the organizations surveyed have suffered a ransomware attack as the cyber
attack in the last year and nearly 71% of cybersecurity experts globally are more worried
about ransomware attacks due to Covid-19

10. The increasingly technologically driven society and an
accelerating digital transformation accompanied by
COVID 19 have driven a rise in cyber attacks. The
increasing number of mobile phone users and mobile data
traffic further makes the world more vulnerable to a
digital space that is highly unoccupied with adequate
cybersecurity measures.
So, with the increased level of cyber attack and a
relentless virus lurking through the city 2021 will
definitely be a year of challenges.