Based on these two readings, I have a few takeaways. The first takeaway I have is that privacy and the protection of that privacy is a serious topic within BioCybersecurity. When utilizing a company’s service to find the specifics of your ancestry, you are taking the risk that a bad actor could utilize your personal, sensitive data for nefarious usage. Whilst on the topic of misusage, we also have to keep in mind the potential for the weaponization of biology-related technology. In recent years, we went through an epidemic that killed an unimaginable amount of people, to which we found out was created in a laboratory. With that in mind, properly securing this highly sensitive data is necessary at all times. The highest levels of security all have one common factor. That common factor being expensive to implement, expensive to maintain, and expensive to expand on. For example, a service as large and as popular as AncestryDNA, would take millions of dollars to properly install and maintain. Another expensive consideration to make, is the cost to provide proper surveillance on the data. It doesn’t matter how many millions you spend implementing protection for the data, if you don’t also allocate funds for surveillance. At some point, every line of defense is penetrated and you need to always be prepared.