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Cyber Security Industry Leader Sees Satellites At Top Threat Vector

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

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Cyber Security Industry Leader Sees Satellites At Top Threat Vector

Dave DeWalt, chairman and CEO of NightDragon Security. Photo: NightDragon Security

Satellite communications are the “number one threat vector” for cyber hackers in the world at the moment and it’s a space where the sector is also lacking in providers of cyber security solutions, Dave DeWalt, one of the cyber security industry’s leaders, said on Thursday.DeWalt, who was chairman and CEO of FireEye [FEYE] from 2012 until 2016 and remained executive chairman until early 2017, said during his time with the company “I’m watching the major satellite providers essentially all getting…

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