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Senators Reintroduce Legislation on Commercial Satellite Cybersecurity

By Rachel Jewett

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023

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Senators Reintroduce Legislation on Commercial Satellite Cybersecurity

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Two U.S. Senators have reintroduced legislation to help protect commercial satellite operators from cyber attacks — an issue that has gained in prominence after the hack on Viasat’s [VSAT] KA-SAT network in Ukraine. U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-Mich., and John Cornyn (R-Texas), reintroduced the Satellite Cybersecurity Act on Wednesday. The same lawmakers introduced similar legislation last year that advanced in the Senate but was not passed. The legislation would require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help protect commercial…

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