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Cybersecurity an Increasing Concern for Satellite Providers, World Teleport Association Report Says

Cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly dominant issue for teleport and satellite service providers, the World Teleport Association (WTA) said Tuesday in a report. Cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly important issue to teleport and satellite providers because 94 percent of them…

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have reported a security breach in the last 12 months, WTA said. “Today’s teleport is a data center with antennas, and both large and small operators have to develop an approach to cybersecurity that is appropriate, not only to the threats they face, but to the concerns of their customers and the resources they can bring to the problem,” said WTA Executive Director Robert Bell in a news release. “Whether the adversary is a hacker or an employee who gives away a password by mistake, constant vigilance has become the new requirement.”