Remote working sees cybersecurity questions soar on Stack Overflow

Date:
Thu, 14 Oct 2021 15:03:39 +0000

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Exploited software vulnerabilities continue to drive cybersecurity conversations, but shift to remote work brought a deluge.

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Popular developer Q&A platform Stack Overflow has shared that the shift to remote work has prompted more cybersecurity questions across platforms than any breach.

To do their bid for the cybersecurity awareness month, Stack Overflow
analyzed the cybersecurity topics across the developer collaboration platform to track the evolution of security conversations within the developer community.

Its analysis revealed that the previous biggest peak in questions came right after Yahoo! disclosed its 2013 breach in 2016 and later announced another larger breach at the end of the same year. We've put together a list of the best endpoint protection software Protect your devices with these best antivirus software These are the best malware removal software on the market

Interestingly though the volume of security-related questions at the start of lockdown exceeded that of any year in Stack Overflow history, notes Stack Overflows Senior Data Analyst, David Gibson. Pandemic pandemonium

Gibson says that historically security-related activity across the platform appeared to be tied to major breaches. All that changed with the en-masse shift to remote work in the beginning of 2020.

Stack Overflow saw an undeniable pandemic-related spike at the beginning of 2020 when the shift to remote work prompted a nearly 60% increase in
questions related to authentication, notes Gibson.

His analysis also confirmed a correlation between the types of security incidents, and the volume of questions. For instance, when theres a breach
due to a software vulnerability, cybersecurity-related questions within the developer community rise too.

While vulnerabilities are inevitable, developers shifted from just reacting
to breaches to proactively trying to secure everyone during the move to
remote work, concludes Gibson, noting that the biggest takeaway from the analysis is the shift to a culture of learning. Weve also rounded up the best tech for hybrid working



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