Focusing the Global Horizon for Cyberbiosecurity

This April, BIO-ISAC joined colleagues in the UK for a horizon scanning workshop focused on cyberbiosecurity.

Hosted on behalf of the Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology at King's College London, academics and industry leaders joined the event to share scenarios and explore the boundaries, issues, and urgent needs facing the intersection of cybersecurity and biology.

Invited participants were tasked with sharing insights regarding the cybersecurity protections, mitigations, and solutions to address lab equipment safety over the next 5-10 years. 

With lived experiences in cyberbiosecurity and having worked to scale security adoption at biotechnology campuses, BIO-ISAC shared lessons learned from its most recent coordinated disclosure efforts with international equipment manufacturers and channels. For equipment such as sequencers in biotech campuses, the priority for a safe, secure bioeconomy remains in conflict with practiced reality: everyone wants safety and security and acknowledges industry lacks the requirements to achieve that safety and security. BIO-ISAC further shared that this continues to cause all of industry to fall behind in the delivery of meaningful approaches for the evaluation, remediation, and achievable recovery of operations during an active cybersecurity incident.

Reports on the findings and narratives from the event are currently in production.