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…