Countering Covid-19 Criminality: Battling Pharmaceutical Cybercrime
by Grant Courtney, Principal Consultant for Be4ward
Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated therapeutic innovation in the history of time, the first effective Covid-19 vaccine is now rolling off the production line and out to the world. Producing and successfully distributing an effective vaccine has signaled a significant step towards addressing a global pandemic that has crashed economies, curbed freedoms, claimed close to 1.5 million lives worldwide and sickened more than 63 million. Projecting into the not-too-distant future, the fully vaccinated will be able to enjoy greater freedoms; to interact, to travel, to work and to return to some sense of normality. That the ticket to these freedoms is potentially contained in a small glass vial, makes these vials at high risk of falsification and counterfeiting by criminals seeking profit from the misfortune and fear of others.