Becker's Healthcare May 12, 2022
The U.S. bioeconomy, which encomapsses the biomedical, bioindustrial and biomanufacturing world, is at risk from hackers if it doesn’t receive adequate resources to secure itself, reported Wired May 12.
As cybersecurity becomes a bigger issue for a broader variety of companies, organizations part of the bioeconomy are now realizing that they are vulnerable to cyberattack. Political actors alongside hackers looking for cash may be targeting bioeconomy companies. For example, Russia and China both raced to hack vaccine makers for intelligence gathering throughout the pandemic, which could have been disruptive to operations.
While some parts of the industry, including healthcare and agriculture, are designated as critical industries, the entirety of the bioeconomy is not given its far reaching nature. Instead...
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