Cybersecurity

Regardless of the industry, cybersecurity is a hot topic. We are living in an age where espionage or attacks are more likely to take place in cyberspace than in tangible locations. When CyberSat was launched two years ago, it was a first of a kind event which fused a number of different communities. It brought...

Sandia National Laboratories aims to play a key role in satellite cyber protection. The organization has announced a new seven-year mission campaign to develop the science, technology and architecture needed for autonomous satellite protection systems. The campaign, called STARCS (Science and Technology Advancing Resilience for Contested Space), will fund dozens of Laboratory Directed Research and Development...

Seakr Engineering selected Rambus‘ 28G Multi-protocol LR SerDes PHY and the CryptoManager Root of Trust for its next-generation Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) designs. The 28G Multi-protocol LR SerDes PHY is designed with a system-oriented approach, taking the interface, interconnect and channel into account to help optimize performance and flexibility....

The third iteration of CyberSat begins in November, where members of the satellite, end user, and cyber communities will get together to discuss the threat landscape and vectors for a cybersecurity attack on satellites. We talk to some of experts of the CyberSat advisory board about major threats to the sector. Last year at CyberSat,...

MITRE has becoming the latest founding member of a major space cybersecurity initiative – Space ISAC. This follows on from a key announcement in April when the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) and National Cybersecurity Center (NCC), a national non-profit for cybersecurity influencers jointly announced the launch of Space ISAC on April 8,...

The community served by Via Satellite has a history of innovation, with decades of proven performance in delivering capabilities from space. Businesses and individual consumers now leverage space solutions that are so integrated into our way of life, that we have grown dependent on them. New threats are arising to the use of space. China,...

The kids were more than all right at Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona, as four speakers with a combined age of less than 60 made a lasting impression on the audience of the event’s day-three morning conference session. Emma Yang, a 15-year-old entrepreneur from New York City, is the creator of an app called Timeless,...

Speedcast chose the Hughes Jupiter System to power cellular backhaul over satellite and enterprise Virtual Private Network (VPN) services for a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in Nicaragua. The operator will employ a Jupiter Ku-Band hub and nearly 100 satellite terminals to expand its cellular 3G and 4G services in Nicaragua and throughout Central America, along...

Cloud Constellation and X2nSat entered into a reseller partnership to address the mission-critical needs of customers where a data breach and/or loss of communications can impact the welfare of individuals under critical care or entire population centers. Cloud Constellation and X2nSat will collaborate to enable services that combine the security of data storage, isolated from the vulnerabilities...

Speedcast International revealed that Sebastien Lehnherr joined the company as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Lehnherr previously held numerous operational leadership roles at Schlumberger, an oilfield services company. At Schlumberger, Lehnherr was responsible for delivering global communications and information technology infrastructure. Most recently Lehnherr oversaw cybersecurity for Schlumberger worldwide as Chief Information Security Officer. As Speedcast...