Cyberbiosecurity: An Emerging Answer to Bio-Based Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
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Ryan Scott Houser
Abstract
Securing the cyberspace is a newer domain for national security with threats against intelligence and military targets increasing yearly. There exists, however, a serious challenge to homeland security and the United States’ competitiveness in a new cyber world in which biological information is becoming intellectual property that is a risk for theft and ransom. Cyberbiosecurity is the emerging answer to the biobased cybersecurity vulnerabilities that exist within the United States and that have long-term impacts on the overall bioeconomy which is responsible for 25 % of the United States GDP. The field is beginning to emerge with important meetings, public discussion, testimony to Congress, and publications making importance stances, there does not exist a current systematized structure which can address the needs of the novel cyberbiosecurity space. Cyberbiosecurity needs to be the on-going focus of the government and private companies as a hybridized disciple which is the interface of cybersecurity, cyber-physical security, and biosecurity.
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