Workshop on 3/28/2024: Cybersecurity Lessons from Covid-19: An exploration
The Ostrom Workshop Cyber Public Health Working Group was happy to host a session on “Cybersecurity Lessons from Covid-19: An exploration”, led by our esteemed speakers, Dr. Josiah Dykstra and Adam Shostack.
If you missed it, you can watch the recording here!
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us all to confront a widespread, deadly, and rapidly spreading biological threat. COVID-19 offers an opportunity and call to action for cybersecurity professionals, policy makers, and the public to think about preparation and response to catastrophic digital threats. Human, process, and technological systems in 2024 are unprepared for pandemic-scale digital threats but timely and effective responses are possible by incorporating lessons from COVID-19. In this talk, we characterize what we mean by pandemic-scale cyber events. Next, using insights from published analyses, we offer six core lessons from Covid as an informative guide for thinking about pandemic-scale cyber threats. Finally, we present ideas for developing a new playbook for a pandemic-scale cyber threat.
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