Executive Governance Needed to Counter Threats to Nuclear Plants

As governments and industries try to understand the ever-evolving landscape of cyber threats to civilian nuclear power plants, it is becoming clear that property and information are not the only assets at stake. Public confidence is also at risk.

The steady stream of news about massive hacking of government and corporate systems has stoked public anxiety over how protected we truly are in the face of a cyber adversary. Companies in many sectors of the economy are feeling pressure to showcase that they have done all they can to implement reasonable cybersecurity measures to reduce system vulnerabilities.