The UK Government denies that Sellafield, the nuclear research and processing site located on the Cumbria coast, has been infected with malware since 2015.
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China | The Guardian
The fears are that some of the mist confidential information stored on the site has been accessed by threat actors affiliated with China and Russia.
Reading The Guardian’s report it seems like the cyber security for the site, that holds the world’s largest stock of the highly poisonous, radioactive plutonium and secret documents relating to the nuclear defence and response of the UK Government is in a bit of a mess.
Your takeaway from this…
You probably do not hold such top-secret information or hazardous materials on your site – although one of the students on my Master’s course did run the IT for a nuclear power station – but you need to have appropriate levels of cyber security for your risk and budget.
However, our security stack, which includes a Security Operations Centre, watching your systems for indications of compromise, 24/7 every day of the year, is well within the budget of the smallest organisations including one-person operations.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
