As the satellite industry faces evolving security threats from nation-states, criminals, and other rogue entities, using the right strategies to manage security is of utmost importance to all stakeholders. At SATELLITE 2017’s “CyberSecurity Roundtable: Collaborating with Your Satcom Customer” session, speakers from Inmarsat Global, Hughes, ViaSat, iDirect, and ITC Global addressed the most pressing concerns surrounding security.
Donna Bethea-Murphy, senior vice president of global regulatory at Inmarsat Global, said: “Security, stability, and resiliency are essential at Inmarsat, and I think you see that across the satellite industry. We see ourselves going into the internet of things; but the more we integrate the more vulnerabilities we see.”
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Andy Tomaszewski, vice president of advanced programs at iDirect, said his organization employs multiple strategies: using third-parties to test networks, a rapid-response team, enhanced monitoring, and Dark Web Forums to gather information. “The sharing of information is critical. We need to communication up and down the supply chain.”
Craig Miller, CTO of ViaSat’s Government Systems Division, said his organization takes a “holistic approach” to security. “We have a wide arrange of customers on our network, which leads to a wide array of threats on our network.”
Chris Hill, CTO of ITC Global, noted the challenge of managing different customers: “Some [organizations] have security specification guidelines that are 60 pages long, while others don’t have anything at all.”
David Henning, network security director for Hughes: “From my perspective, I don’t think there should be anything from an information security perspective that we should hold off. All of the security [solutions are] based on industry standards and government standards, and industry best practices.”
Bethea-Murphy concluded: “Our industry is responding to ensure stability and we do this with communications. We have to talk to one another on every level. We see the challenge of cybersecurity as a holistic approach. As threats evolve it’s important for a company’s risk management policies to evolve.” VS
