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Cyber

LEO Operators and Manufacturers Wrestle with Supply Chain Cybersecurity

Shaun Waterman

Tuesday, May 17th, 2022

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LEO Operators and Manufacturers Wrestle with Supply Chain Cybersecurity

Panelists during a supply chain discussion at CyberLEO. Photo: Shaun Waterman/Via Satellite

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 conference said May 12. The lab will explore how vulnerabilities discovered in software and hardware components could be exploited by hackers in real space systems, said Jeff…

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