National security commission sees opportunity to address cyber needs for biotech through CISA efforts

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency should expand its critical infrastructure work to protect the biotechnology sector against cyber attacks, according to a congressionally mandated report examining the intersection of biotech and national security.

“Adversaries and malicious actors will increasingly target the biotechnology sector’s infrastructure and data” as the importance of emerging biotech grows, according to the April 8 report from the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology.

The report says threat actors have already “carried out numerous attempted...