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Source: The Hill
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03.02.20
Since 1983 when the term “computer virus” was first coined, cybersecurity experts have adopted nearly wholesale the tools used in epidemiology for use when fighting cyberattacks, and genetics researchers have helped cyber professionals use statistical models designed to study mutations to speed up analyses of cyberattacks.
Now in 2020 with the Coronavirus, or “COVID-19,” outbreak, cyber experts across the globe should take note that COVID-19 is causing the same severe disruptions and tangible financial harm to the manufacturing and transportation sectors that would predicted to accompany a large scale cyberattack.
When tactics are devised to minimize the impact of such COVID-19-induced disruptions and financial losses, Washington’s cyber planners would do well to try to adopt them into emerging cyber-mitigation strategies, according to an article by Pillsbury Public Policy partner Brian Finch, who also co-leads the firm's and Cybersecurity, Data Protection and Privacy team.