SpiderOak will work with Lockheed Martin in adapting SpiderOak's commercial technology to new uses for potential military and intelligence community satellite operators. Lockheed Martin will use its extensive experience with end-to-end mission operations for orbital satellite systems to support the full integration of the new OrbitSecure technology into practical satellite management. OrbitSecure will help advance the National Defense and Hybrid Space Architectures by allowing operators to traverse the same national and international horizontal supply chains driving the new space economy without sacrificing the assurances of authority, identity, and need to know that come with traditional vertically integrated infrastructures. DLP is the only blockchain implementation optimized for ultra-low power, making it particularly well suited for the new generation of small satellites. OrbitSecure is built on SpiderOak's open-source Distributed Ledger Platform (DLP), a blockchain and encryption software development kit that allows space developers to embed zero-trust security at the application layer. OrbitSecure is SpiderOak's lightweight software-only solution for ground and space platforms to secure all data types over untrusted infrastructure, including both unencrypted networks and commercial operators. “He’s a true space industry leader and innovator.SpiderOak Mission Systems and Lockheed Martin enter collaboration. “Once SpiderOak set on the path to both create and lead the space cybersecurity market, as CEO I knew that we needed to find a unique leader who was not only conversant in the mission need, but with the technology chops to comfortably navigate the distinct and complex space and cybersecurity communities,” said David Pearah, SpiderOak CEO. The platform is needed for the disaggregated, discontinuous proliferated space environment feeding into the multi-domain command and control environment that relies on secure and trusted data out to the user, decision-maker and warfighter. SpiderOak closed on its fundraiser in January, providing the runway to fully build out the fully decentralized software platform. “Ensuring secure and trusted data to the people with the need-to-know accesses in a zero trust architecture, that’s our enduring commitment to our clients, and to our country and would have solved some very recent issues of national importance.” “As the cyber attacks on space capabilities supporting Ukraine illustrated, there is an urgent need for SpiderOak’s capabilities to be built in to prevent exploitation through the link segment which can subsequently move laterally through the network,” Moberly said. SpiderOak has also demonstrated secure, low-latency data transfer across multiple nodes. The national security space community’s interest has increased, as shown by the focus on secure-by-design in requirements and budget requests for FY24. This secure-by-design approach replaces outdated compliance and checklist methods, which don’t work for autonomous, machine-to-machine systems like space. SpiderOak signed a contract with the Defense Innovation Unit for Hybrid Space Architecture in September and has been helping shape requirements for built-in data protection. In less than a year of leading these efforts, Moberly has already made a significant impact. SpiderOak is developing a transformative suite of capabilities not just for the Defense Department and intelligence community, but also for commercial space networks and hybrid space architectures combining commercial, national security, civil and allies together ubiquitously. The biggest threat to space architectures is non-kinetic cyber attacks, and for SpiderOak’s John Moberly who is leading the “birth to grave” vertical of providing secure and trusted data orchestration for space-enabled architectures, addressing this threat is about a strategy around the fully decentralized software capabilities of the company’s OrbitSecure platform. Prev Next John Moberly, SpiderOak Mission Systems John Moberly Senior Vice President for Space, SpiderOak Mission Systems
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