{"id":55417,"date":"2022-05-13T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-force-offers-free-cyber-scanning-to-commercial-satellite-vendors\/"},"modified":"2022-05-13T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T17:01:00","slug":"space-force-offers-free-cyber-scanning-to-commercial-satellite-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-force-offers-free-cyber-scanning-to-commercial-satellite-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Offers Free Cyber Scanning to Commercial Satellite Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><em>LOS ANGELES<\/em> \u2014 The <strong>U.S. Space Force<\/strong> is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), confirmed Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to attendees at the CyberLEO cyber security conference in Los Angeles on Thursday, Col. Krolikowski said that the free service offered, \u201ccan do those scans for anyone in the government or commercial sector \u2026 so you can see what your supply chain looks like and what [cybersecurity] vulnerabilities you might have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SSC, the Space Force component responsible for developing, building, and launching satellite systems, designed the vulnerability scan service to,&nbsp;\u201cassist in evaluating current vendor IT security postures, so that our most talented commercial space innovators are not scared off by infosec compliance layers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>If the U.S. Department of Defense\u2019s planned (and recently revamped) Cybersecurity Model Maturity Certification program were currently running, for instance, Col. Krolikowski said, vendors could use the Space Force scans to help them complete that process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s non-attributable,\u201d she said, meaning subcontractors and others in the vendor supply chains of any company that take SSC up on the offer won\u2019t necessarily know that they are being assessed by the U.S. military as part of the process.<\/p>\n<p>Krolikowski said SSC offers the service in an effort to raise cybersecurity standards across the satellite ecosystem, as the U.S. military relies more and more on commercial providers for the globe spanning connectivity it needs to confront adversaries in the Pacific and European theaters \u2014 a world away from the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>She added that there hasn\u2019t been much take up of the new program yet, but it\u2019s still very early days. \u201cIt\u2019s still a little bit in its infancy. We\u2019ve only had it up for a few months or so. But it\u2019s something that we\u2019re trying to advertise better,\u201d she said. Nonetheless, vendors have already visited to kick the tires on the offer and had given positive feedback, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have had some people come in to get a glance at what they have. And they\u2019ve been pleased with [what they\u2019ve learned about] the processes and the results, with the kind of printout they get as to how their systems are working.\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as DoD is wrestling with a series of compliance initiatives designed to protect the military\u2019s commercial supply chains from cyber compromise. In addition to CMMC, which officials now say they plan to have in place within 18-24 months, the Commercial Satcom Capabilities Office or CSCO within Space Force is launching IA-Pre, a program to pre-approve the cybersecurity postures of everything from individual systems all the way to end-to-end management service architectures.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), confirmed Thursday. 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