{"id":52637,"date":"2023-09-30T00:48:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-force-awards-cybersecurity-contract-to-protect-space-architecture-2\/"},"modified":"2023-09-30T00:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:48:55","slug":"space-force-awards-cybersecurity-contract-to-protect-space-architecture-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-force-awards-cybersecurity-contract-to-protect-space-architecture-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Awards Cybersecurity Contract To Protect Space Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xage Security<\/strong>&nbsp;on Wednesday said it has received a $17 million contract from the <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong>\u2019s Space Systems Command to provide a cybersecurity platform to protect the service\u2019s ground and space-based systems and to ensure the integrity of data exchanged from the source or network edge to the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>Xage, which is based in Palo Alto, California, has 90 employees. The company\u2019s Xage Fabric mesh platform helps defend operational and information technology, and the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>For the Space Force, the Xage Fabric platform will provide zero trust access management and data security to cyber harden current terrestrial-based systems such as ground stations and modems, zero trust capabilities to ensure secure interactions between commercial and Defense Department assets, and zero trust secure data exchange.<\/p>\n<p>Zero trust cybersecurity principles are a priority for the government and DoD and assumes that systems and networks have already been compromised, highlighting the need for cyber protections throughout networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor complex distributed environments, of which space is a demanding example, we\u2019re answering the pressing need for local continuous operation, integrity of data, and identity protections for a mix of legacy and modern systems,\u201d Geoffrey Mattson, Xage\u2019s CEO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story was first published by Defense Daily.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xage Security&nbsp;on Wednesday said it has received a $17 million contract from the U.S. Space Force\u2019s Space Systems Command to provide a cybersecurity platform to protect the service\u2019s ground and space-based systems and to ensure the integrity of data exchanged from the source or network edge to the consumer. Xage, which is based in Palo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}