Cybersecurity

Cloud Constellation Corporation and Assured Communications Advisors International (ACAI) have entered into a reseller agreement to deliver Cloud Constellation’s SpaceBelt Data Security as a Service (DSaaS), focusing on government and Department of Defense (DOD) organizations. The DOD established the Cloud Executive Steering Group (CESG) to develop and execute a strategy to accelerate the adoption of...

Boeing and Israeli company Assembrix have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will enable Boeing to use Assembrix software to manage and protect intellectual property shared with vendors during design and manufacturing. Assembrix’s software will enable Boeing to transmit additive manufacturing design information using secure distribution methods to protect data from being intercepted, corrupted...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and an SES-led consortium are developing a system that will allow the generation of encryption keys from space, as well as their secure transmission to users on Earth via laser. Under the agreement with ESA, the consortium of industry partners will establish a Quantum Cryptography Telecommunication System (Quartz), a new...

The recent World Cybersecurity Congress in London painted a picture of a world that could be entering into a new era of cyber attacks and warfare. While describing it as apocalyptic could be veering slightly on the dramatic, there is little doubt that the cyber war in many ways has only just began. Given satellite’s...

As commercial aircraft increasingly become connected to the larger Internet of Things (IOT), the potential for safety risks also rise, the head of Thales’ business operations in the United States said on Wednesday. There have already been hacks of aircraft and aviation-related systems, including In-Flight Entertainment (IFE) systems, data communications between pilots and ground-based controllers,...

TokenEx and Cloud Constellation announced they will begin jointly designing a space-based data security solution that layers tokenization and storage in space for securing their customers’ sensitive data. The combination of TokenEx’s Data Protection Platform and Cloud Constellation’s SpaceBelt service would enable organizations to secure sensitive data in space while storing only tokens in their...

The former President and CEO of SES, Karim Michelle Sabbagh has accepted the role of CEO at cybersecurity startup firm DarkMatter based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Faisal Al Bannai, founder and managing director of DarkMatter, announced the appointment, which is effective April 2018. Al Bannai will remain managing director of the firm, and...

As worldwide security growth moves to more than $96 billion in 2018, research firm Gartner is predicting an increase of 8 percent from 2017 for cybersecurity investment. Organizations are spending more on security as a result of regulations, shifting buyer mindset, awareness of emerging threats, and the evolution to a digital business strategy. Responding to this need,...