Pandemic Preparation - Swine Flu - ISC

[Anonymous]

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?n&storyid=6268

Lots of news about the Swine Flu outbreak in Mexico. Right now, cases are reported in the US, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Spain. We have covered pendemic preparedness before, so let me just list a few pointers and a couple highlights:

- don't count on locking up your NOC staff in the NOC. They want to be home with family. Be ready to operate in "lights out" mode remotely with minimal or no staff.

- everybody will try to do the same thing. Cell phone data connectivity and broadband internet connections may be overloaded at times. Panic breads inefficiency.

- don't panic. Try to find news reports and don't fall for the hype some news media will spread to attract viewers. Stick to reputable sources (www.cdc.gov and such comes to mind).

So far, about 80 people died from it. The best number I could find for people infected stated that "more then 1000 had symptoms". Most of the infections in the US happened to children in high school and all of them appear to be fine so far.

Stephen Northcut maintains a nice page with links to news reports and such: http://www.sans.edu/resources/leadershi ... ch2009.php

[EireWarrior]

World 'well prepared' for virus

Canada is the latest country to confirm cases after as many as 81 deaths in Mexico and 20 cases in the US...

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