The Convergence of Biological and Cyber Warfare

Volume:15
Issue:2
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Concerns about cyber threats have grown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic- ravaged global order. Our biological and digital systems have been severely damaged by the proliferation of different virus varieties. It is crucial to envisage convergence points for biological and cyber warfare for a post-pandemic world order since the COVID-19 pandemic resembles a form of biological warfare combined with persistent cyberattacks. There are two points where biological and cyberwarfare converge. Firstly, integrating cyber and biological weapons might have disastrous results resembling a new form of warfare. Second, the development of international norms for cyberwarfare might learn a lot from the enormously successful development of norms for biological weapons, which are prohibited by international law, given the similarity in their threat characteristics.

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