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What the COVID-19 pandemic teaches us about cybersecurity – and how to prepare for the inevitable global cyberattack
Jun 1, 2020
COVID-19 shows that the world is at great risk of disruption by pandemics, cyberattacks or environmental tipping points. We should prepare for a COVID-like global cyber pandemic that will spread faster and further than a biological virus, with an equal or greater economic impact. The coronavirus crisis provides insights into how leaders can better prepare for such cyber risks.
Most of the world is currently experiencing highly atypical living conditions as a result of COVID-19. At the height of the pandemic, more than 2 billion people were under some form of lockdown , and 91% of the world’s population, or 7.1 billion people, live in countries with border controls or travel restrictions due to the virus .
It would be comforting to think this is merely a “blip” interrupting an essentially stable state of affairs, and that the world will return to “normal” once medicine and science have tamed the virus.
Comforting – and wrong.
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COVID-19 is not the only risk with the ability to quickly and exponentially disrupt the way we live. The crisis shows that the world is far more prone to disturbance by pandemics, cyberattacks or environmental tipping points than history indicates.
Our "new normal" isn’t COVID-19 itself – it's COVID-like incidents.
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