By Mark Rasch & Brett Krantz
Without belaboring the point, there are many similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and cybersecurity. We can take lessons from the response to the pandemic and apply them to cybersecurity.
1. We Know It Is Coming
For decades, public health planners have been warning that there would be a novel (no-immunity) disease that would spread across the globe and cause damage and destruction. The same is true for cybersecurity professionals. Whether it is warnings about potential zero-day attacks, a cyber “Pearl Harbor,” massive cyber warfare, cyber-terrorism or similar attack, we know that we are vulnerable, and we have (to some extent) mapped out the most likely scenarios and defenses to them… Read more.