News Wire Feed Light Reading 4/7/2021 BASKING RIDGE, NJ The COVID-19 pandemic forced businesses to quickly support remote working practices, often without proper security measures in place. The Verizon Business Mobile Security Index (MSI) 2021 reveals that many businesses may have left themselves vulnerable and open to cybercriminals in the rush to ensure their workforce could operate remotely. Forty-nine percent of businesses surveyed in the latest edition of Verizon's MSI stressed that changes made to remote working practices during lockdown adversely affected their company's cybersecurity. Interestingly, even though 40 percent of businesses surveyed recognized that mobile devices are their company's biggest IT security threat, 45 percent of them knowingly sacrificed the security of mobile devices to "get the job done" (e.g., meet a deadline or productivity targets) and nearly a quarter (24 percent) sacrificed the security of mobile devices to facilitate their response to restrictions put in place due to the pandemic.