Lives on the Line - Learning Disaster Response From the Coronavirus Pandemic

Explore a compelling conference talk that examines disaster response in cloud-native environments through the lens of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Gain insights from a practicing MD and a security expert as they draw parallels between medical field incident response and software disaster recovery. Discover how open-source technologies saved lives, learn about the similarities between tools like Falco and field testing during the outbreak, and understand the importance of preparing for unexpected catastrophes in infrastructure. Walk away feeling secure and prepared to handle unforeseen disasters in your own systems while gaining valuable lessons from the global response to the pandemic.

Lives on the Line. Learning Disaster Response from the Coronavirus Pandemic Kris Nova & Dr. Rachel Beda, Wisepatient
First reports of new disease in China Highly contagious before you are symptomatic Higher death rate than typical respiratory virus Saturday, January 25th Chinese New Year
Compute, Storage Network Kernel tracing Application Instrumentation
State of Emergency System Alarms Experience Reports Outages
Computer virus Failure rates Draining Nodes Cloud Snapshots
Chinese government open sourced OPPE Protocols Sequenced Coronavirus genome Does warmer temperatures have an impact? Small observational studies touted hydroxychloroquine Misinformation around medicine impacting infection Physical transmission State of Panic
Open sourcing information Post-Mortem Evaluation False Positives • Red Herrings Correlation vs Causation Speculation
Security Policy Regression Testing Kernel Controls
Observability False Positives Quantity over Quality patches Runtime Security Centralized Logoing
Pandemic Response Working Group Strategic Stockpiles of PPE Antibiotics Airway and breathing medication • Deployable chain of command
Triaging systems moving forward Chain of command Documentation Regression