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Summit Leaders Agree To Strengthen Cybersecurity Of Nuclear Facilities

Tuesday, April 5th, 2016

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Summit Leaders Agree To Strengthen Cybersecurity Of Nuclear Facilities

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Many participating countries of the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, held in Washington, D.C. last week 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 Friday, 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 extra initiatives or…

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