
Space operators must start planning for and implementing quantum-resistant cryptography now to ensure that space national security systems are resistant to emerging threats, a senior cyber official for the National Security Agency (NSA) said. Darren Turner, chief of Critical Networks Defense for the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate, said cryptography is a key part of cyber defense for space systems, in his keynote at CyberSatGov in Reston, Va., on Nov. 7. In the current threat environment, nation-state adversaries and malicious cyber actors…