Hi and welcome to Malicious Life in collaboration with Salusen. The COVID-19 pandemic had and still has a big impact on many aspects of our daily lives and one such major impact is that many of us including myself are forced to work from their

homes.

This naturally has a great impact on the security posture of many companies, which is why I have with me today

online a long time guest of malicious life, Sam Curry, Cyber reasons, a CEO.

Sam, great to have you back on the show again with us.

Great to be here. Thanks for having me.

And Sam recently published a guide to maintaining secure business continuity during COVID-19 for security people with insights and

advice from Sam and others in the company. In this relatively short episode

we'll discuss some of the highlights from that guide and how COVID-19

is impacting service security in general. If you're interested by the way you can

find the guide at malicious dot life slash remote security malicious dot life slash remote security

malicious dot life slash remote security

so Sam right of the bad what problems did this radical departure from the quote unquote normal security perimeter highlight.

Well, I did an analogy almost immediately. I tried to think of something in nature that could be seen as similar and I'm not a biologist but I came up with crabs.

It doesn't sound good when I say it like that but effectively crabs have an exoskeleton

and as they grow they shed it and then they grow a new

exoskeleton and this was the equivalent of having an environmental trigger

causing this molting theting of the exoskeleton by an entire population

of crabs all at once.

I say I'm not a biologist because crabs might in fact behave that way.

I'm just using this as an analogy so please forgive me but but essentially the

predators note and they go aha I can attack and sometimes I say to see so say

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