Insuring Cyber Podcast: Social Engineering Risks Rising, but Cyber Coverage Still Lacks The COVID-19 pandemic has upended the work environment in many ways, and cyber experts say one unfortunate result of the switch to remote work is an increase in cyber crime, particularly around social engineering threats. “The bottom line here is similar to how in the aftermath of any kind of natural disaster or major event, it really breeds scammers and fraudsters,” says Erin Kenneally, head of Cyber Risk Analytics for property/casualty industry technology provider Guidewire, on this episode of the Insuring Cyber Podcast. “They come out of the woodwork, and the COVID-19 crisis made good on this pattern of calamities that attract these opportunistic cyber criminals.”