Companies can't afford to sleep on cybersecurity.

With an increasing number of businesses making the transition to go fully digital and online during the Covid-19 pandemic, security experts have cautioned that organisations should not treat cybersecurity protocols as a one off investment.

Maher Yamout, senior security researcher at Kaspersky, told Khaleej Times that as businesses scramble towards shifting their operations online, most of them fail to equip their employees with the cybersecurity training needed to protect themselves from cyber threats.

Kaspersky's recent 'How Covid-19 changed the way people work' report, 73 percent of employees working from home have not yet received any specific cybersecurity awareness guidance or training designed to keep themselves secure from risks.

'As a result of these relaxed security measures, organisations are seeing an increase in security threats,' Yamout said. 'In fact, 27 percent of employees have received phishing e-mails related to Covid-19 while working from home. Accidentally downloading malicious content from a phishing email could cause major losses to businesses data.'

Businesses, he said, have certainly faced a number of challenges during this unprecedented time. 'It is important that while businesses encourage their employees to shift towards remote working that they also place a great deal of importance on cyber security to...