New Space panel discussion at CyberSat Digital. Screenshot via CyberSat Digital
“In information security, it is a matter of time before failure. Given enough time, all systems will fail.”
William Eshaugh, vice president of Corporate Engineering and Security for
Planet, laid out the stark truth of cybersecurity threats during the CyberSat Digital event on Tuesday, May 11. New Space players on the panel took stock of cybersecurity threats in light of the ransomware attack on
Colonial Pipeline, which has disrupted the gasoline supply on the East Coast.
While details of the Colonial Pipeline attack are still coming out, Eshaugh hypothesized that the company may have had what he calls an “eggshell defense” a thick security exterior that, when penetrated by something as small as a pinprick, reveals a soft interior.