Vulnerability Assesment of Puerto Rico’s Health Department Web Application

Abstract

As technology progresses in the cyber environment, so do new threats; now, with the Covid-19, pandemic biosafety and biosecurity concerns are even more rigorously scrutinized. The cyber and biological sciences are uniting quickly, making benefits, new and favorable applications, and expanding dangers to all countries. Cyber biosecurity is a generally new field that aims to identify and mitigate these security risks fostered by digitizing biology and biotechnology automation. There has been an expanding number of high-profile online protection breaks lately that have raised public attention to possible social, political, and monetary outcomes that assaults to biological databases can bring about. This project will be focusing on the exploration ofvulnerabilities regarding to the Covid-19data websitefor Puerto Rico’s Health Departmentutilizing the tool burp suiteaswell as suggest proactive measures to avoid the stealing of information or any cyber-attacks.KeyTerms⎯Biosecurity, Burp suite,Covid-19, Risk,Vulnerability,Web security.