NCD Coker previews upcoming minimum security requirements for government space systems

SAN FRANCISCO. National Cyber Director Harry Coker provided an update on work through his office to establish minimum requirements for federal space systems, in a Tuesday keynote here at the RSA conference, as part of a larger strategy to secure critical infrastructure sectors.

Coker took a step back from the Biden administration’s decision in National Security Memorandum 22 to not create a new critical infrastructure for space systems, arguing that “regardless of how it is characterized in any document...