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Twenty countries with nuclear
weapon materials or nuclear
power plants "do not even
have basic requirements to
protect nuclear facilities from
cyber-attacks," according to a
new report from a
nonproliferation watchdog
group.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative's
finding comes in the wake of
reports from researchers that
a cyber-attack last month
caused a power outage in
Ukraine, raising new concerns
about the ability of the
industrial sector to prevent
digital attacks. And the stakes
are even higher in the nuclear
space because of the
potentially devastating results
of a malfunction - or the
possibility someone could
create an opportunity to steal
nuclear materials.
In preparing its latest global
ranking of nuclear security
risks, NTI for the first time
asked basic questions about
regulations addressing how to
protect nuclear facilities from
cyber-attacks. "What we have
observed is what I call
enormous unevenness on the
global stage to address this
issue," said Page Stoutland,
the group's vice president for
scientific and technical affairs
and one of the report's
authors. The United States and
other nations with developed
programs often had regulatory
safeguards, he said, while
countries now developing
nuclear programs were less
likely to have formal policies
in place.
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