India Coronavirus Dispatch: How can vaccines be kept safe from hackers?

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How countries can keep their Covid vaccines safe from hackers

In the wake of the pandemic, how can countries fight their way back to good public health and economic recovery? Short answer: develop enough doses of vaccines to be distributed and administered to millions of people without a hitch.

That’s the ideal, but the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine supply chain is rife with logistical complexities. What’s more, the enormously valuable intellectual property and data on the various vaccines, components, and therapeutics are relatively easy for threat actors to pilfer. Nation-states are already attempting to steal vaccine formulae and disrupt operations. Read