THE GROWING IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION SECURITY, ESPECIALLY IN THE PANDEMIC PERIOD

Abstract

Being at routine of all people, be in the particular life or in a corporate ambience, the technology has as purpose helping the society life and solve problems by a smart way, but your use without the appropriate measures of security can enable gaps for malicious attacks and cause large-scale damages. Therefore, this work proposes to perform a review of concepts focused at information security, the increasement in the number of cyber attacks throught the years, the most evident types of attacks and also to contextualize the growing importance of data security, especially with the pandemic arrival and the consequences that brought with regard to the remote work adopted during the period and the evident demand for professionals specialized in the area of information security.