Impact of Cyber Threats to Nuclear Facility

Impact of Cyber Threats to Nuclear Facility

Cyber, Threat, Security

International community has been traditionally
focusing on physical threats to facilities and pass by the
threat of a cyber attack on a facility. All the same, due to the
growing threat posed by cyber attacks; cyber security is
becoming indispensable component of nuclear facilities and
it is setting up itself as a main concern for facility operators
and national regulators. Consequently, ensuring the
security of nuclear facilities is a considerable element, which
gears at avoiding theft of nuclear materials and sabotage.
For that reason, this paper was set to examine impact of
cyber threats to nuclear facility. Specifically, the paper has
examined cyber threats, cyber threats to nuclear facility,
impact of cyber threats to nuclear facility. It is concluded
that cyber threat to nuclear facility is growing despite
numerous effort taken to offset the problem. Thus, there is
a need either to design or improve available cyber threat
mitigation procedure in order to tone down the problem

Erasto Kayumbe

www.ijcit .com

November 2020

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