causing capital, labor loss or
can be used in act of terrorism
for uncontrolled production of
toxins or infectious agents. To
mitigate these risks, the culture
of the life sciences community
needs to shift from trusting
blindly to a highly aware and
trained community. This also
requires intricate relationships
between the computational and
experimental
dimensions
of
product development workflows.
The diverse nature of pathogens
and toxins with their potential to
be used as biowarfare agent (BW)
could be attributed to multiple
factors. These include infectivity
(the number of organisms
required to cause disease),
virulence (the severity of the
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disease caused), transmissibility
(ease of spreading from person
to person), and incubation
period (the time from exposure
of a biological agent to the onset
of illness). All these attributes
are manageable by modern
biotechnology and information
related to such experimentation
trials is key to any covert attack
using these for BW. Similarly, in
cyber world there is a diversity
of malicious codes. These include
viruses (programs that replicate
in target machinery); worms
(self-sustaining programs) and
carriers such as trojan horse to
perform a legitimate function with
malicious activity. Additionally,
Botnets, or networks of computers
infected with malicious code,
can be coordinated to perform
distributed denial of service
attacks. For biological weapons,
delivery vehicles range from
advanced aerial spray technology
to contamination of food products
or water, while malicious code
in cyberspace can be delivered
by usage portals, email, web
browsers, chat clients, web-
enabled applications and updates.
The cyber threat has expanded
dramatically in recent years with
a series of damage. Terrorists
are using cyber capabilities over
traditional methods to target 104
countries including India.
Governments and security experts
have singled out the life sciences
sector as being significantly
vulnerable to cybercrime. In cyber
security terms, innovation is fast