STST Tutorial Week 9

Society- Cyber and Biosecurity

One of the greatest direct and indirect dangers to Australian security may be infectious
disease:
 Always constant and emerging and re-emerging
 Many avenues to spread
Why is public health so important to national security?
 Human population drives the workforce and military

How can Mitigating Are these What Who is

AUS identify mechanisms mechanisms capabilities are responsibl
threat to reduce effective or needs such as e for
source impact not effective? identification responding
which exist and to these
now in AUS preventative events?
mechanisms

Bioterroris -Look at -Research -R/D- costly Prevention of -AFP

m individual -Vaccines and time threat- tracking -Military
groups and -Increasing consuming- sales, records, (dependin
behaviour of stockpiles preventative tighter border g on scale)
states and Containmen rather than security, -Health
actors t capabilities mitigating increasing Dept.
beforehand -Advanced - stockpiles of -Hospital
-Look at hospital and Containment- emergency services
abnormal or emergency only reducing services or and
out of place response impact, vaccines emergency
diseases -Dispatch of depending on -Increasing services
-Abnormal people scale, could interoperability -Home
patterns or -Travel also be time , international Affairs and
strains bans, shut consuming cooperation border
-Target downs of security
profiles travel ports Identification actors
Conventiona of threat -ASIS,
l -AFP ASIO, DOD,
surveillance -Military ASD
and -Hospital
monitoring services

-Hard to
track if
natural or
intentional
Infectious -Public -Education -Not
diseases education programs sufficient to
(emerging stop threats
or re- -Potential -Doctor to daily
emerging) enforcemen services infrastructure
t systems
-Blood
screening
systems
-Free and
accessible
vaccines
-Increased
subsidisatio
n
-Better
reporting
systems
Endemic -Public and -Effective -effective
disease private orgs monitoring surveillance
(always monitor -Even at systems- issue-
there) spread school’s level no institutional
- it is known oversight and
infection level responsibility
-Not enough not clear and
vaccines not clear who
-Effective to report to
quarantine -Because of no
and police major issues,
force there hasn’t
- been a driving
Compensatio force to
n effective- streamline
more likely to reporting and
report response
-free health (because what
care system- is defined as an
effective attack is
unless breaks subjective)
down -should be
-Govt buy in further
to vax centralised
insurance state
plans- speed responsibility
and expense (disease does
makes this not care about
ineffective borders)
-Bio scans of
food and
people