2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy

The 2 November 2023 Cyberbiosecurity Summit at Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) headquarters in Atlanta united cybersecurity and biotechnology stakeholders to address safeguarding of bio-based industries. Goals included identifying cyberbiosecurity vulnerabilities and establishing prevention...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Guise, David Pattie, Kenneth B. Yeh, Kemper Talley, Rachel Fennell Fezzie
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2024-12-01
Series:Global Security: Health, Science and Policy
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23779497.2024.2401164
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description The 2 November 2023 Cyberbiosecurity Summit at Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) headquarters in Atlanta united cybersecurity and biotechnology stakeholders to address safeguarding of bio-based industries. Goals included identifying cyberbiosecurity vulnerabilities and establishing prevention best practices for emerging biotech hardware, software, data and bio-based systems. The Summit highlighted risks and explored mitigation strategies for a safer bioeconomy. Key takeaways include: (1) as genome databases proliferate globally, it becomes more likely that these databases will become targets for cyberbiosecurity attacks; (2) the biotech community should not view cybersecurity as an impediment to research, but rather as a national security and global health imperative for proactive investment and workforce training; (3) the bioeconomy depends on a vulnerable supply chain for software; and (4) mapping of a biological attack surface, inspired by traditional cybersecurity assessments, would facilitate identification of vulnerabilities of cyber-bio-physical systems and the development of protective measures for the bioeconomy.
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spelling doaj-art-4db9eefd73f8423c99b1ce48e4cb6d042025-08-20T01:58:51ZengTaylor & Francis GroupGlobal Security: Health, Science and Policy2377-94972024-12-019110.1080/23779497.2024.24011642023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomyNicholas Guise0David Pattie1Kenneth B. Yeh2Kemper Talley3Rachel Fennell Fezzie4CIPHER Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USAAdvanced Concepts Laboratory, Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, USALife Sciences Division, MRIGlobal, Gaithersburg, MD, USASynthetic Biology Group, RTX BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USAFezzie Life Sciences, Hollis, NH, USAThe 2 November 2023 Cyberbiosecurity Summit at Georgia Tech Research Institute’s (GTRI) headquarters in Atlanta united cybersecurity and biotechnology stakeholders to address safeguarding of bio-based industries. Goals included identifying cyberbiosecurity vulnerabilities and establishing prevention best practices for emerging biotech hardware, software, data and bio-based systems. The Summit highlighted risks and explored mitigation strategies for a safer bioeconomy. Key takeaways include: (1) as genome databases proliferate globally, it becomes more likely that these databases will become targets for cyberbiosecurity attacks; (2) the biotech community should not view cybersecurity as an impediment to research, but rather as a national security and global health imperative for proactive investment and workforce training; (3) the bioeconomy depends on a vulnerable supply chain for software; and (4) mapping of a biological attack surface, inspired by traditional cybersecurity assessments, would facilitate identification of vulnerabilities of cyber-bio-physical systems and the development of protective measures for the bioeconomy.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23779497.2024.2401164Artificial intelligencebioeconomycyberbiosecuritygenomic sequencingsynthetic biology
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2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
Global Security: Health, Science and Policy
Artificial intelligence
bioeconomy
cyberbiosecurity
genomic sequencing
synthetic biology
title 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
title_full 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
title_fullStr 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
title_full_unstemmed 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
title_short 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
title_sort 2023 cyberbiosecurity summit underscores challenges associated with cybersecurity and the rapidly growing bioeconomy
topic Artificial intelligence
bioeconomy
cyberbiosecurity
genomic sequencing
synthetic biology
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23779497.2024.2401164
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