Creating the Population’s Situational Awareness of the State/Status and Threats of Covid-19 By Using Modern Information Technology

Abstract

The paper attempts to systematically present the problem of creating the desired level of situational awareness of the population by indicating the possibility of a comprehensive approach to the threats, evaluation of the risk associated with the materialisation of these threats and its impact on the state of situational awareness. Based on this analysis, it was proposed to model the possibilities of counteracting the effects of risk through the use of modern information technologies, including the integration of the information database on threats, with particular emphasis on the Things Internet platform and Big-Data class systems. Against this background, the role of multi-faceted exploration of data on threats, the intensity and directions of their spread has been highlighted. This applies in particular to the promotion of the level of situational awareness not only of the society but also of locallevel, state-level and international-level authorities and organisations managing the crisis under COVID-19 conditions. However any threats and disruptions to information systems directed to the population can cause confusion and chaos, which can naturally result in a real risk of reduced ability by various entities and the whole society, or by selected communities, to perform their tasks.

Implications of Industry 4.0 for Security in Contemporary Organizations – Perspective of Information Strategies

“…The IoT/IoE strategy becomes particularly important as a platform for connecting objects, machines and people into a coherent organization and creating network structures (Miller, 2011). Information and decision-making efficiency, due to ongoing monitoring of the state of implementation of processes and the use of dispersed resources related to them, creates an appropriate level of security and business continuity with interactive verification of the effectiveness of business activities, supported by an appropriate level of situational awareness (Zaskórski, 2020). Ensuring business continuity should be considered as a good criterion for the quality of the management system of the entire organization.…”

“…In addition, the rationalization of the selected information strategy is a determinant of care for the credibility, efficiency and effectiveness of achieving goals and satisfying the needs of the consumer/recipient in a specific place and time (Zaskórski, 2020). Modernity sets important directions for changing and improving these strategies in the context of agile, flexible, innovative and proactive development strategies, which distinguishes Industry 4.0 from previous revolutions.…”

“…At the same time, selective access to own information resources or resources shared with other entities becomes important, which may condition the common situational awareness (Zaskórski, 2020) and the security of the entire organization, implied by the information security (da Veiga et al, 2020, pp. 2-20).…”