Pandemic Planning, Strategy, and Operations for any and every organisation and company.
We humans react slowly and we are shortsighted in many ways including planning for events and situations that change 'the normal', that impact the familiar and comfortable such as evolving threats that have not caused widespread havoc and chaos. With pandemics and cyber, both are and can change the way we act in the world and business. So: (added to this post on continuous basis as we have time to add and revise)
PANDEMIC PLANNING
Scope
A) People and Personal
1) Employees
a) Telecommuting - work remotely/work from home
b) Leadership - pandemic security strike teams and resilience actions
c) PTO - bench depth and coverage
d) Operational Impact and Communications
e) Revenue and Growth Impact
2) Pandemic Hygiene - workplace, remote, relationship interactions
a) Travel
b) Video and Remote Conferencing and Meetings
c) Operational Isolation and de-centralised cell structures
B) Supply Chain Resiliency
1) Logistics - choke points and single point failures
a) Raw materials and Basic Supply
b) Transportation and Shipping
c) Customer Communications
2) Multiple Path Redundancies
a) Parallel Supply Chain Sourcing
b) Dynamic Sourcing and Supply Chain Agility
C) Infrastructure and Business Continuity Disaster Recovery
1) Third Party Dependencies
2) Brownout vs Blackout Actions
3) IT Resiliency and Fallbacks
COO ISRSEC International, Ltd. CISO ISRSEC (North America)
4 年DDoS/XSoS 'wildfire/megablaze' scenario probability and capacity rising. https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6648299338084732928/
COO ISRSEC International, Ltd. CISO ISRSEC (North America)
4 年https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6647178897605607426/
COO ISRSEC International, Ltd. CISO ISRSEC (North America)
4 年Work at home/remote work is leading to more attacks. https://www.techradar.com/news/remote-workers-prime-targets-for-cyber-attacks combined impact: Czech hospital hit by cyberattack while in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak One of the Czech Republic's biggest COVID-19 testing laboratories hit by mysterious cyberattack. https://lnkd.in/ep9ZNSb accelerate and worsen by attacking infrastructure and supply chain. btw, every company large to small should have pandemic planning and action check lists and reaction checklists as well as contingency preparations for DR operations. We are seeing lag and delay with many entities with chokepoints, throttles and faulty 'relief valves' and for small and medium sized companies, this may result in catastrophic consequences as pandemic grows. we've always been struck by the similarities between biological and cyber viruses. thinking worse is to come in both arenas.
COO ISRSEC International, Ltd. CISO ISRSEC (North America)
4 年The big danger, once a pandemic plan is implemented and operationally deployed, is "monkey reflex" - the tendency for us primates to get bored, to lose focus and attention with routine where 'nothing' happens. boredom, distraction, loss of focus - watchstander issues and psychologically being at full intensity level of attention - 2 minute max even for sniper team members. Sustained behaviors and cultural change is hard to maintain for humans/modern homosaps in particular - too many distractions. ;)