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Summit Leaders Agree To Strengthen Cybersecurity Of Nuclear Facilities

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

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Many participating countries of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, held in Washington, D.C. the week of March 28 agreed to strengthen the cybersecurity practices of their respective nuclear facilities and work together to bolster cyber defenses.After the close of the summit on April 1, President Obama noted during at a press conference that “as part of our work today, we agreed to keep strengthening our nuclear facilities’ defenses against cyber-attacks.”Cybersecurity for nuclear facilities was part of two “gift baskets,” which are…

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