Legislation now calling for spacecraft manufacturers to create cybersecurity plan when working with NASA

The Spacecraft Cybersecurity Act was recently introduced in the House this past summer. The legislation would require NASA to secure a cybersecurity protection plan from manufacturers applying to use federal dollars to build NASA spacecrafts. The introduction comes after thousands of cyberattacks from malicious actors, including China and Russia, have been launched against NASA, threatening the safety of Americans, including our astronauts. So what can and needs to be done to make sure cyber protections are considered during the manufacturing stage? To find out, I spoke to Shane Fry, CTO of the software security firm RunSafe Security.

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