Cybersecurity
Volume 13, Number 1 (Spring 2012)
From the Editors
Headlines
Profile: Randy Blaisdell
Meeting National Security Space Needs in the Contested Cyberspace Domain
Growing concern over emerging cyber threats is shifting attention to mission resilience—the ability to operate through new and evolving threats in the cyberspace domain.
Meeting the Cyber Challenges of Tomorrow
Aerospace researchers are pursuing diverse means of endowing space systems with the intelligence, autonomy, and adaptability needed to overcome a range of future threats.
Cybersecurity Challenges in a Net-centric World
Transition to net-centricity encourages users throughout the Department of Defense to share information, but it also introduces cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Recognizing, understanding, and addressing these vulnerabilities are essential to successful transition.
Achieving Mission Resilience for Space Systems
Space systems need enhanced resiliency to ensure performance of critical functions and overall mission operations during a cyberattack. Aerospace is investigating various approaches to achieving such resilience for current and future programs.
Cyber Protection and Space System Acquisition
Space systems will undoubtedly be targeted for future cyberattacks—but by focusing on capabilities, rather than components, developers can ensure that space assets will deliver critical functionality when it is needed most.
Cyber Challenges in National Security Space
Tactics, techniques, and procedures used by the authors of the Stuxnet computer worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program can be used by advanced persistent threat actors in attacking other targets, including national security space systems. Architects must consider these capabilities as they design and implement modern space systems.
Aerospace and the NSA Collaboration on Information Systems Security
The Aerospace Corporation has worked closely with the NSA since the 1980s to assess the security of computer information systems and space cryptography equipment. Today, the broader focus is on the protection of critical information and systems with the need to operate through potential cyber incidents.
Research Horizons
Securing Computer and Data Networks
Flight-Cyber Defense
Cyberspace Command and Control and Battle Management
Bookmarks
Publications, Papers, and Patents by the Technical Staff
Contributors
Cyber Terminology: Toward a Common Lexicon
The Crosslink Crossword
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