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New Space ISAC plans to elevate the industry’s awareness of cyberthreats

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At a time when corporations are planning to blanket the heavens with high-tech hardware, the space industry is creating an information sharing and analysis center — a nonprofit organization that helps to track cyberthreats for member companies and related government agencies. The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (S-ISAC) will be housed within the National Cybersecurity Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado as a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization created to improve awareness about securing cyberspace. S-ISAC itself has not released much public information about how it plans to coordinate the space industry around its mission, but a news release from its founding company — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions — says the ISAC was created in response to long-recognized “information sharing gaps within the cybersecurity and space community.” San Diego-based Kratos said it has “coordinated the organizational planning and federal government charter, funded the Space ISAC startup costs, and developed the operational […]

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New certification planned for industry information sharing orgs

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The voluntary cyberthreat information-sharing groups (ISAOs) would have to meet certain baseline standards and would be able to seek third-party certification of their capabilities under a proposal unveiled Wednesday. Third-party verification is essential for scalability of trusted information-sharing, explained Gregory White, executive director of the Information Sharing and Analysis Organization Standards Organization, or ISAO-SO. “When we have thousands of ISAOs out there, how the heck do I know who I can trust?” asked White, a University of Texas San Antonio computer science professor. He compared certification to the security clearance individuals need to access classified information. “Because you have that clearance, I know certain things about you have been verified by a trusted third party … I know I can trust you with certain kinds of information,” he said, adding it was a scalable alternative to developing face-to-face or individual trust relationships. But he acknowledged the move would prove controversial among ISAOs, […]

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