Post #6

https://www.axios.com/dhs-cybersecurity-agency-stress-test-remote-capabilities-coronavirus-cisa-00d94cb9-8826-4271-8cb4-9b380c26a282.html

It seems like all that anyone is talking about right now is the Corona virus, and I’m happy to jump on that bandwagon so long as it’s interesting. With more organizations discouraging their members from traveling (see our own Metro’s extension of Spring Break) these groups need to start thinking about how to switch to a remote format, allowing their employees/members to continue to work or use services without needing to physically be present. Specifically, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA is going to have some percentage of their employees not physically travel to work, and have them stay home instead. This is described as a stress test of their telework system and hopes to gauge their ability to deal with the idea of inhibited travel. While there are of course some responsibilities of CISA that can’t be handled remotely, but for the majority of their other systems the test has them doing their jobs from home. Overall, it’s to see how capable CISA could be if the Coronavirus continues to spread and force more and more people into self imposed quarantine. This is a really interesting article because we’ve been able to see this first hand. Just as Metro State has suspended the week of classes immediately following the originally schedule Spring Break, here too is a Department of Homeland Security agency essentially doing the same. Metro is going to take their additional week and try to pivot to remote content delivery systems in order to discourage physical travel of it’s students, and here CISA is basically trying to test their own same function. Depending on how long COVID-19 is actively a threat, this could bleed into more and more industries. It could be really interesting to see how these strategies might hold up long term.