The Economics of Cybersecurity in Biomanufacturing
Matt McMahon and Shannon Lantzy model economic cyber risks in biomanufacturing, demonstrating how targeted attacks threaten global vaccine production.
Summary
The Strategic Importance of Biomanufacturing
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted biomanufacturing facilities as critical national security infrastructure responsible for rapid vaccine synthesis and pharmaceutical distribution.
Modeling Cyber Threats to Biological Production Lines
Matt McMahon and Shannon Lantzy present a realistic biomanufacturing attack scenario, analyzing vulnerabilities in bioreactor telemetry, digital sequence data, and cold-chain monitoring.
The Economics of Biosecurity Disruptions
The authors evaluate the financial and public health fallout of intellectual property theft, batch contamination, and ransomware-induced production shutdowns.
Building Resilient Cyber-Biosecurity Defenses
The presentation provides biomanufacturing leaders with risk quantification models and actionable security controls to safeguard pharmaceutical pipelines.
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