Journal:Cyberbiosecurity: An emerging new discipline to help safeguard the bioeconomy
| Full article title | Cyberbiosecurity: An emerging new discipline to help safeguard the bioeconomy |
|---|---|
| Journal | Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology |
| Author(s) | Murch, Randall S.; So, William K.; Buchholz, Wallace G.; Raman, Sanjay; Peccoud, Jean |
| Author affiliation(s) | Virginia Tech, Federal Bureau of Investigation, University of Nebraska, Colorado State University |
| Primary contact | Email: rmurch at vt dot edu |
| Editors | Berns, Kenneth I. |
| Year published | 2019 |
| Volume and issue | 6 |
| Page(s) | 39 |
| DOI | 10.3389/fbioe.2018.00039 |
| ISSN | 2296-4185 |
| Distribution license | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International |
| Website | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00039/full |
| Download | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2018.00039/pdf (PDF) |
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Abstract
Cyberbiosecurity is being proposed as a formal new enterprise which encompasses cybersecurity, cyber-physical security, and biosecurity as applied to biological and biomedical-based systems. In recent years, an array of important meetings and public discussions, commentaries, and publications have occurred that highlight numerous vulnerabilities. While necessary first steps, they do not provide a systematized structure for effectively promoting communication, education and training, elucidation, and prioritization for analysis, research, development, testing and evaluation, and implementation of scientific and technological standards of practice, policy, or regulatory or legal considerations for protecting the bioeconomy. Further, experts in biosecurity and cybersecurity are generally not aware of each other's domains, expertise, perspectives, priorities, or where mutually supported opportunities exist for which positive outcomes could result. Creating, promoting, and advancing a new discipline can assist with formal, beneficial, and continuing engagements. Recent key activities and publications that inform the creation of cyberbiosecurity are briefly reviewed, as is the expansion of cyberbiosecurity to include biomanufacturing, which is supported by a rigorous analysis of a biomanufacturing facility. Recommendations are provided to initialize cyberbiosecurity and place it on a trajectory to establish a structured and sustainable discipline, forum, and enterprise.
Keywords: cyberbiosecurity, bioeconomy, biosecurity, biomanufacturing, cybersecurity, cyber-physical security, supply chain
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