“Our adversaries are coming after us in cyberspace,” U.S. Space Force Col. John Smail did not mince words in a Nov. 4 CyberSatGov keynote.  The U.S. needs to be ready to defend itself in cyberspace against Russia and China’s cyber capabilities, said Smail, senior cyber officer for the Space Force.  Smail, who advises the Chief…

Getting cybersecurity right at a federal agency means learning to speak the language of the program and mission managers who actually run the IT systems you’re trying to protect against hackers and cyberspies, said Rob Powell, a senior advisor on cybersecurity in the Office of the CIO (OCIO) at NASA. “The culture at NASA is…

LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I'm not standing here today giving you answers,” he told an audience of satellite industry executives at the CyberLEO conference. “I'm standing here today giving you problems. I'm…

LOS ANGELES — MITRE, the federal contractor that runs R&D labs for the U.S. government, is developing a space cyber lab where real satellite hardware and software can be tested to ensure security. It’s just one of a host of new measures that space companies are adopting to harden their systems against hackers, panelists at the CyberLEO…