12th Annual Cyber Week: An international cybersecurity event hosts at Tel Aviv University in Israel

Digital Week is a yearly international cybersecurity event hosted at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Throughout recent years, Cyber Week has become internationally acclaimed as one of the top cybersecurity events in the world.

With in excess of 9,000 attendees from in excess of 80 countries, Cyber Week is a place where cybersecurity experts, industry leaders, startups, investors, academics, diplomats, and government officials share knowledge, methods, and ideas on how companies and individuals stay safe from cybercriminals and internet bad actors.

Governments and businesses have prioritized cybersecurity, particularly during the pandemic, where cybercriminals have expanded and worked on their tactics to breach organizations in view of the mixture of work and online learning setups.

Cybercrime dramatically expanded during the pandemic.

1) Online scams spiked by over 400% in 2020 compared with earlier years.

2) Phishing emails developed significantly that Google blocked more than 18 million malware and phishing emails connected with COVID-19 day to day. This incorporates spear phishing for espionage purposes.

3) A recent study titled “The impact of COVID-19 on cybercrime and state-sponsored cyber activities” by Johannes Wigg figured out that groups of hackers accepted to be sponsored by Russia, China, and North Korea utilized personalized emails containing references to the pandemic to taint their targets with malware or steal passwords.

4) More than 90% of healthcare organizations suffered to least cybersecurity breach, as indicated by the US Healthcare Cybersecurity Market 2022 report.

Digital Week 2022 won’t just assist with dealing with these issues directly, it will likewise attempt to help governments and organizations in confronting cyber dangers by presenting the most recent technologies and techniques in battling cybercriminals.

Cyber Week is held together by the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Center (ICRC), The Yuval Ne’eman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security, Tel Aviv University, the Israeli National Cyber Directorate under the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a main international conference in cybersecurity.