I’ve sat in front of computer screens for over 15 years in the intelligence community and private sector, facing off against foreign adversaries that I’ll never get to look in the eye. But one thing I know to be true of an adversary is that no opportunity is missed — nor is any crisis off-limits.
During the past decade, cyber warfare has taken on many forms, from attempting to influence politics to disrupting critical infrastructure and targeting national defenses — and now, there is plenty of evidence that the historic race toward a cure for the novel coronavirus is being targeted by state-sponsored adversaries.
The COVID-19 vaccine supply chain is already under siege, and the more components of the supply chain that are activated, the more organizations that don’t normally think about cybersecurity issues at this scale will find…