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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