What Is The Importance Of Cyber Security

In today's world nuclear sciences and technologies are being used in a numerous aspects of our everyday life. It is commonly acknowledged that there is, in fact, peaceful use of the nuclear technology as it has been formed with the guidance of the International Atomic Energy Agency (ΙΑΕΑ) against some people's misconception that is exclusively used for military purposes. In recent events after the adoption of the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals by the United Nations the IAEA has, also, adopted the Atoms for Peace and Development in continuation of the Peaceful Uses Initiative that was launched from 2010.

Nuclear technology is currently being used in areas of health care, food security and agriculture, water security and environment

It is prominent that because of the vast use of the nuclear technology in our everyday lives; the subject of the computer security in relation to the safety of the nuclear technology is of great importance and it is, steadily, becoming a crucial global issue. The reason that cyber security has advanced as a primarily point of interest in this matter is mostly due to how easily is targeted by groups of people having an almost immediate effect of instability; causing a possible widespread loss of power or even a possible uncontrolled release of ionizing radiation.

Computer security in the nuclear field is mainly focused on protecting the safe and secure operation and of course management of the nuclear facilities.1 The importance of cyber security of nuclear technology is even more prominent with the consideration that not only is a matter that the International Atomic Energy Agency has been occupied with, but is also high on the agenda of INTERPOL, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute as well as the International Electrotechnical

Some of the most famous of these incidents is the Stuxnet incident that took place in October of 2010 when a malware was discovered in Iran, Indonesia and elsewhere interfering with the Siemens industrial control systems, leading to the conclusion that it was aimed at the Iranian nuclear program. Similar incident has taken place in October of 2012 when the Russian firm Kaspersky discovered a cyber-attack called “Red October” that took place from 2007 and among others the virus collected important information on “energy providers, nuclear and other critical infrastructures”.2 Additionally, in December of 2014 a cyber attack has also taken place on one of South Korea's nuclear operators that stole a number of important information “including the blueprints of at least two nuclear reactors and electrical flow charts”.3 As it has also been stated from the IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano at the International Conference on Computer Security in a Nuclear World (Vienna, June 1 2015): “Last year alone, there were cases of random malware-based attacks at nuclear power plants, and of such facilities being specifically