2020 was a year like no other in our lifetime. The COVID-19 Pandemic had a broadly evident and devastating impact on our health, our society, and our economy. Less evident have been adversaries’ attempts to employ cyber-attacks to exacerbate the pandemic through cyber-based disruption, exploitation and cyber-driven disinformation. The focus of this essay is on the nexus between cyber security and our future biological threat security (biothreat security). This article begins with a few key questions. What have we learned from observing adversary cyber tradecraft this year? What can we surmise our adversaries have learned from trying to take advantage of the current pandemic that they will use against the US in the future? More importantly, what can we extrapolate from these observations for the future of cyber-attack as the key element of strategic hybrid non-kinetic warfare?
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