Vaccinated Atom: Cybersecurity for Nuclear Plants

... declarative for member states and in view of the attribution problem appear suitable for stating the problem rather than developing mechanisms for threat reduction. *** In fact, Stuxnet has marked the opening of the cyber arms race . Amateurs producing viruses for fun and cyber criminals engaged in blackmail and theft have been replaced by information warriors. As a result, with the spread of information systems in human life and pervasive automation of infrastructural facilities, including nuclear plants, cyber attacks have every chance to proliferate in increasingly greater dimensions. In the nuclear sector, the range of cyber threats is quite broad and may include: Sabotage by impacting automated process control systems by altering the ...