White House Issues Cybersecurity Space Policy Directive
The White House issued cybersecurity principles that are to be the foundation for the government's approach to cyber protection of space systems, per a space policy directive. Friday's SPD urges development and operation of space systems and their infrastructure "using…
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risk-based, cybersecurity-informed engineering"; development or use of cybersecurity plans that include capabilities to protect against such threats as unauthorized access and communications jamming and spoofing; use of best practices and norms in cybersecurity rules and regulations; collaboration among space system owners and operators in developing best practices and mitigations; and "appropriate risk trades" when space system operators implement cybersecurity requirements. The SPD tells agencies to work with the commercial space industry and nongovernment space operators on defining best practices, creating norms and promoting improved cybersecurity behaviors.