Shane Fry, CTO at RunSafe Security, joined the Federal News Network on The Space Hour podcast to discuss The Spacecraft Cybersecurity Act and what spacecraft manufacturers can do to build cyber protections in during the manufacturing stage.

“A lot of software running in space is in low-level languages,” Shane said. “We need solutions that can help prevent against memory-corruption vulnerabilities where an adversary can use an external interface or a sensor or a wireless communications interface and takeover that space system. And that’s a scary thought.”

Listen to the conversation here.

Key Takeaways:

• The Spacecraft Cybersecurity Act would require NASA to secure a cybersecurity protection plan from manufacturers applying to use federal dollars to build NASA spacecrafts.
• Manufacturers need solutions to protect spacecraft systems that don’t add weight while still preventing against memory-corruption vulnerabilities and remote takeover.