Jason Miller, executive editor for Federal News Radio, is saying that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a severe patching problem that’s putting many of its systems at risk.
Citing multiple inside sources and internal documents, Mr. Miller is saying that there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of patches that haven’t been applied to NASA IT systems, exposing the company to potential attacks.
While NASA’s external shield is strong, the investigator says that, once its external protections are penetrated, a skilled attacker would have no barriers if they want to map the agency’s entire internal network and access every nook and cranny.
The blame falls on NASA’s cyber-security culture and HPE
Mr. Miller cites various reasons in regard to this situation. First and foremost, NASA is putting missions above everything else. This sometimes means freezing patching operations to mission-related systems in order to avoid any downtime or delays due to bugs or improper patching. Basically, nobody is allowed to touch and patch computers until the mission has ended, leaving systems unprotected for extended periods of time. For the full article click here
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