{"id":53385,"date":"2023-05-25T19:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/dod-cio-urges-vendors-to-ensure-commercial-satellite-systems-are-cyber-secure\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T19:25:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T11:25:05","slug":"dod-cio-urges-vendors-to-ensure-commercial-satellite-systems-are-cyber-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/dod-cio-urges-vendors-to-ensure-commercial-satellite-systems-are-cyber-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"DoD CIO Urges Vendors to Ensure Commercial Satellite Systems are Cyber Secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><em>ST. LOUIS <\/em>\u2014 As commercial companies increasingly put more computing power on their satellites and related systems, there needs to be a commitment by industry and users to bolster the cybersecurity of these technologies, the <strong>Defense Department<\/strong>\u2019s top information officer said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s have cybersecurity on those capabilities, whether it\u2019s on the downlink, whether it\u2019s on the transect between satellites and relays or wherever it is, we must apply cybersecurity principles to what we\u2019re doing on space,\u201d John Sherman, DoD CIO, said at the GEOINT 2023 Symposium here.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman highlighted the DoD\u2019s march toward implementing a zero-trust cybersecurity framework by 2027. A zero-trust approach to information security assumes that an adversary has already compromised network but the network is architected to prevent a bad actor from moving laterally to pilfer and exfiltrate data.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting that China is the pacing challenge in U.S. national security, Sherman said his office\u2019s top responsibility is to ensure that U.S. and allied forces can operate and survive in the Western Pacific and the ultimate goal being to deter China from ever believing it can attack Taiwan, the U.S. or its allies.<\/p>\n<p>An important lesson for DoD from the ongoing war in Ukraine has been that country\u2019s used of a 300,000-person strong software army, \u201cwriting and updating software on the fly\u201d and demonstration the ability to quickly adapt, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson for DoD and its allies is that \u201cHardware is important but if we don\u2019t live in a software-defined world, we\u2019re going to be behind,\u201d Sherman said.<\/p>\n<p>This article was first published by Via Satellite sister publication Defense Daily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS \u2014 As commercial companies increasingly put more computing power on their satellites and related systems, there needs to be a commitment by industry and users to bolster the cybersecurity of these technologies, the Defense Department\u2019s top information officer said on Wednesday. \u201cLet\u2019s have cybersecurity on those capabilities, whether it\u2019s on the downlink, whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53386,"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-53385","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\/53385"}],"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=53385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}