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The notion of how cyber security can contribute to the pandemic has been limited to the provinces of the reduction of technology risk and fraud against corporate institutions.
The past decade has shown how technology is able to disrupt other industry sectors, ex: Uber is a technology company that has disrupted the transportation sector; SpaceX is arguably as much a technology institution as it is a rocket company given the amount of computer sensors that have made it’s innovation possible; etc.
It’s the cross pollination and polymathic thinking that has allowed technology companies to innovate beyond operational computing support and upkeep. In the realm of cyber security, it’s precisely the lack of this type of polymathic thinking that is preventing us from contributing to solutions that reduce deaths from the impact of the virus.
In this document, we will explore actionable arenas where cyber security professionals can directly contribute to have a direct impact:
- First, we lay the foundations of understanding basics in the field of genetics and the COVID19 virus by exploring viable analogies between computer science and genetics.
- We then explore how the skillset of cyber security knowledge can be leveraged to promote solutions that find actionable insights from available COVID19 academic research and also develop the technology accelerators for genetic researchers.
- Finally, we explore how security engineering must take the lead in developing source code and protocols that will be vital in achieving contact-tracing at a global scale so that citizens and governments can move forward in accelerating the course to normalcy without sacrificing many lives.
Download the entire paper here: https://dhanjani.com/docs/The_Source_Code_of_Life_v3.1.pdf
