Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape
The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biolo...
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author | Lauren C. Richardson Nancy D. Connell Stephen M. Lewis Eleonore Pauwels Randy S. Murch |
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description | The life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. As the information and handling mechanisms for biological materials have become increasingly digitized, many market sectors are now vulnerable to threats at the digital interface. This growing landscape will be addressed by cyberbiosecurity, the emerging field at the convergence of both the life sciences and IT disciplines. This manuscript summarizes the current cyberbiosecurity landscape, identifies existing vulnerabilities, and calls for formalized collaboration across a swath of disciplines to develop frameworks for early response systems to anticipate, identify, and mitigate threats in this emerging domain. |
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spelling | doaj.art-a55af777c9f542739b156801f14d40bc2022-12-21T20:36:29ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology2296-41852019-06-01710.3389/fbioe.2019.00099451363Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat LandscapeLauren C. Richardson0Nancy D. Connell1Stephen M. Lewis2Eleonore Pauwels3Randy S. Murch4Merrick & Co., Arlington, VA, United StatesJohns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United StatesMerrick & Co., Arlington, VA, United StatesWilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program, The Wilson Center, Washington, DC, United StatesVirginia Tech Research Center, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Arlington, VA, United StatesThe life sciences now interface broadly with information technology (IT) and cybersecurity. This convergence is a key driver in the explosion of biotechnology research and its industrial applications in health care, agriculture, manufacturing, automation, artificial intelligence, and synthetic biology. As the information and handling mechanisms for biological materials have become increasingly digitized, many market sectors are now vulnerable to threats at the digital interface. This growing landscape will be addressed by cyberbiosecurity, the emerging field at the convergence of both the life sciences and IT disciplines. This manuscript summarizes the current cyberbiosecurity landscape, identifies existing vulnerabilities, and calls for formalized collaboration across a swath of disciplines to develop frameworks for early response systems to anticipate, identify, and mitigate threats in this emerging domain.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00099/fullbiosecuritycybersecuritycyberbiosecuritylife sciencesbioeconomybioinformatics |
spellingShingle | Lauren C. Richardson Nancy D. Connell Stephen M. Lewis Eleonore Pauwels Randy S. Murch Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology biosecurity cybersecurity cyberbiosecurity life sciences bioeconomy bioinformatics |
title | Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape |
title_full | Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape |
title_fullStr | Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape |
title_full_unstemmed | Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape |
title_short | Cyberbiosecurity: A Call for Cooperation in a New Threat Landscape |
title_sort | cyberbiosecurity a call for cooperation in a new threat landscape |
topic | biosecurity cybersecurity cyberbiosecurity life sciences bioeconomy bioinformatics |
url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbioe.2019.00099/full |
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