Research
As biological systems become increasingly digital, vulnerabilities in software, data systems, automation, AI, and connected laboratory infrastructure create new risks for animal health, food security, and global stability. Protecting our future requires securing the systems behind it.
Doing that well, starts with research.
Cyberbiosecurity is Security for Artificial Intelligence.
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence mandates a security approach that bridges traditional cybersecurity and biosecurity. Cyberbiosecurity safeguards the systems and processes that manage digital biology, protecting the integrity, availability, and safety of AI-driven bio-processes from foundational research to automated laboratory execution. Hardening this digital-to-biological boundary is a strategic necessity to have safe, secure biology.
To effectively mitigate risks, environments with AI-enabled biology must transition from voluntary best practices to mandatory requirements and compliance. Unlike software that can be patched, biological data and proprietary research, once tampered with or stolen, can face irreversible intellectual property loss or catastrophic safety incidents with no roll back option. We have the tools and safeguards to deploy, they require minimal friction and low resources.
Cyberbiosecurity is Security for Animal Health.
Join a growing international effort advancing cyberbiosecurity research, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, workforce development, and policy for a safe, secure bioeconomy.
BIO-ISAC and Dianetis have been funded by the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) to examine cybersecurity in veterinary and animal health science as a component of biosecurity, safety, and security.
Cyberbiosecurity is Security for the Cyber-Underserved.
Cyberbiosecurity is essential to protecting the data, infrastructure, and resilience of cyber-underserved populations across the global bioeconomy.
Supported by the Fragile Foundations initiative, fragilefoundations.org, BIO-ISAC is co-chairing the Pragmatic Solutions Workgroup to drive actionable cyberbiosecurity standards across the sector. Stay tuned for the workgroup’s full findings and strategic report coming December 2026.