SCADA Security: How Britain can reinforce its nuclear and weapons control systems against cyber threats

The word SCADA may mean little to you at first glance, but this apparently innocuous acronym denotes one of the UK's most crucial analytics tools, one which keeps the country moving by ensuring our nuclear power plants, our airports and our weapons caches continue to run smoothly. SCADA systems, or, to give them their full name, Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition systems, use a series of codes to relay messages from sensors to central terminals when a fault occurs, and ensure the fault