For millennia, humans have coexisted with nature’s harsher elements, sometimes with annoying but usually non-fatal responses, like allergic reactions to pollens and spores. And while virus and bacteria outbreaks can have a much more significant and dangerous impact, humanity has largely managed to survive them, but pandemics do leave their mark. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there have been five major pandemics, including COVID-19, in the last 100 years of varying severity. Central to the planning and response of these pandemics has been controlling virus transmission.
COVID-19[i] is most like the 1918 H1N1 Spanish Flu, but in the century between the two, our ability to respond and mitigate a pandemic has dramatically increased. In no small measure, this is possible due to security planning and technologies that manufacturers have developed and corporations use. The pandemic, cybersecurity issues affecting security system deployments, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, and remote work strategies with a new focus on the employee experience in the workplace are just a few of the influences impacting the new workplace reality.
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