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NRO Looks to Bolster Satellite Cyber Protection

NRO Looks to Bolster Satellite Cyber Protection
The NRO's Jeremy Mucha addresses the CyberSat conference on Tuesday.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is moving to a zero trust/defense in depth cyber protection schemata for the agency's satellites, an NRO official said on Tuesday. "Whereas in the past the government was really the main tenant of air and space, that equation has flipped," Jeremy Mucha, the NRO's technical director of national communication systems, told the CyberSat conference in Reston, Va., on Tuesday. "For us--the government--we're still grappling with that, to be perfectly honest, and how we manage and…

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