Biotechnology has become increasingly reliant on digitization and automation in the past decade, creating new cyber vulnerabilities in biological research processes. Network data systems, laboratory equipment, or engineering controls are vulnerable to attack, which could result in environmental contamination or even threaten human health.
This panel will convene experts in cyber biosecurity, an emerging discipline that seeks to identify and mitigate these new risks. What are the potential public health and national security consequences of cyber biosecurity-related threats?
Panel speakers:
Eleonore Pauwels – Senior Fellow, Global Center on Cooperative Security
Nina Alli – Executive Director, Biohacking Village
Steve Lewis (moderator) – Senior Product Manager, Gene Synthesis & Synthetic Biology, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Host:
Leah Walker, Defense Technology Research Analyst, Institute for Security and Technology
