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

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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