Cybersecurity

RigNet has been awarded a five-year U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) for Information Technology Professional Services contract. This contract includes three 5-year renewal periods for a potential contract term of 20 years. Federal, state, and local governments will be able to access RigNet’s global networking solutions, enhanced cybersecurity, military-grade hardware encryption...

Telit has partnered with Sternum, the multilayered cybersecurity solution to provide real-time embedded protection for Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Telit said Sternum’s solution can be built into its xE910 module family to give customers in-depth visibility and security for their entire device fleet. This visibility is designed to provide real-time alerts of cyber breaches,...

The world’s first portable ground station for sending and receiving secure quantum communications is up and running. The station has successfully connected to China’s Quantum Science Satellite, nicknamed Mozi, which was launched in August 2016. Ji-Gang Ren at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei and his colleagues used the mobile station...

If you think your maritime satellite terminal is safe from hackers, give Ken Munro a call to make sure. He’s probably already found a backdoor to your system on the internet.  Ken is the founder of Pen Test Partners, a network security consultancy firm, as well as a widely respected and very entertaining public speaker...

Many things make cybersecurity for the satellite sector difficult: IT in space is tough to update and satellite systems are enormously complex. But the hardest thing of all might be that market incentives are misaligned, panelists said at CyberSat 2019. The satellite sector — like other critical industry verticals — is under constant cyber attack,...

CyberSat, an event which looks at security and satellites, has made quite a splash since it launched two years ago. We live in a connected world, and in the future, conflicts could be as much in the cyber world as they are anywhere else. Given the importance of satellites and the role they play in...

A major cybersecurity challenge for satellite manufacturers is that their products have to be designed to be beyond the reach of human hands for decades. Automobile companies face the opposite problem — their products have to spend 15 years or more being touched by human hands every day. Right to repair laws mean that “Everyone...

Satellite companies vying to sell to the government and defense markets know their prospective customers want them to be cyber-secure, but the absence of industry standards and guidance leaves them scratching their heads about exactly how secure they need to be, and how best to attain that level of cybersecurity. That was the take away...

The new generation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites — thousands of which will be launched over the next few years — may be easier to secure from cyberattacks than current constellations, but in some ways they present a larger attack surface for hackers, according to a panel at CyberSat Friday. “There’s new things that...

When it comes to outer space, Russia is both a partner and an adversary for the U.S., a duality made clear by two very different keynotes at Thursday’s CyberSat 2019 conference. NASA CIO Renne Wynn cheerily highlighted the ways the two nations cooperate in space — Russia has a module on the International Space Station...