New Space ISAC plans to elevate the industry's awareness of cyberthreats

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https://www.cyberscoop.com/space-isac-ncc-kratos/

By Joe Warminsky
CYBERSCOOP
April 9, 2019

At a time when corporations are planning to blanket the heavens with high-tech 
hardware, the space industry is responding with the creation of an information 
sharing and analysis center — a nonprofit organization that helps to track 
cyberthreats for member companies and related government agencies.

The Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (S-ISAC) will be housed in 
Colorado Springs, Colorado, within the National Cybersecurity Center, itself a 
nonprofit, nongovernmental organization created to improve awareness about 
securing cyberspace. S-ISAC has not released much public information about how 
it plans to coordinate the space industry around its mission, but a news 
release from its founding company — Kratos Defense and Security Solutions — 
says the ISAC was created in response to long-recognized “information sharing 
gaps within the cybersecurity and space community.”

San Diego-based Kratos said it has “coordinated the organizational planning and 
federal government charter, funded the Space ISAC startup costs, and developed 
the operational plan for the Space ISAC.” S-ISAC’s location puts it in close 
proximity to the U.S. military’s National Space Defense Center at Schriever Air 
Force Base, near Colorado Springs.

The “ISAC” designation is important. It implies that the space organization is 
recognized as representing a piece of the country’s critical infrastructure. At 
least 24 ISACs currently share information about cyberthreats for industries 
such as finance, energy, health care, surface transportation and 
telecommunications. They fall under the umbrella of the nongovernmental 
National Council of ISACS, which coordinates communication among them. The 
Trump administration’s September 2018 National Cyber Strategy explicitly cited 
the need to protect space assets and related infrastructure.

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