Security Lessons from CoVID-19
Lessons, or reminders, of important information security operations concepts which have been pointed out by the CoVID-19 pandemic crisis. Using the SARS- CoV-2/CoVID-19 pandemic as a giant case study, and structured by the domains of information security, this looks at security aspects of the crisis, pointing out specific security fundamentals where social, medical, or business response to the crisis failed, or needed to make specific use of those concepts. For the most part, these lessons are simply reminders of factors that get neglected during times of non-crisis, and particularly point out the importance of advance planning and resilience in systems and business.
Rob Slade
Rob Slade is an information security and management consultant from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. (Or he may be an AI experiment gone horribly wrong, and hooked up to various email addresses.) He has consulted for Fortune 100 companies, has taught on six continents, gets calls from intellectual property lawyers, is frequently published in the Information Security Management Handbook, and authored "Robert Slade Guide to Computer Viruses," "Software Forensics," "Dictionary of Information Security," "Cybersecurity Lessons from CoVID-19," and two thirds of "Viruses Revealed." He got his start in security researching viruses. (But not this type of virus.) More information than anyone would want to know about him is available at
