Mark Orsi and I have both monitored and written on the COVID-19 outbreak as it has spread from China to Japan and South Korea, and on to Iran, Italy and then throughout the world.

Just over a month ago, GRF CEO Bill Nelson posted on business pandemic preparation, touching on staff safety, crisis communications and supply chain resilience.

According to reports, Chinese authorities sought to suppress information about the coronavirus that has emerged from Wuhan, going so far as to force one doctor to sign a confession of “illegal behavior” after his warnings to colleagues.

Global Resilience Federation held a threat briefing last week on Iran featuring intelligence professionals from CSIS, FireEye, CrowdStrike, iDefense/Accenture and GRF. A lot of interesting points were made, along with some great commentary on TTPs and risk mitigation.