Tech Talk: Steve Lee
How vulnerable is aerospace to cybercrime? What should we be doing about it?
In 2016, the World Economic Forum reported that cybercrime costs were $3 trillion worldwide, and expected to reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025. Attacks on infrastructure such as pipelines are already felt by the aerospace industry. Moreover, manufacturers and airlines are targets of ransomware. In 2019, AIAA launched an effort to address cybersecurity concerns. It now has an Aerospace Cybersecurity Working Group that is producing a tutorial on the subject for ASCEND. AIAA partners with other stakeholders in efforts like the DEFCON Aerospace Village and Hack-a-Satellite challenge to understand possible vulnerabilities in space infrastructure.
Steve Lee, AIAA’s Cybersecurity Program Manager, will discuss various aspects of cybersecurity as it relates to aerospace, including external and internal pressures; policy responses and impacts; cybersecurity programming at AIAA; and program outreach. Steve leads adjacent content and product development activities at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, including cybersecurity, autonomy, and space traffic management. He is currently applying his combination of analytic, technology consulting, and enterprise strategy experience—in industry and in the Federal policy arena—to build boost AIAA’s adjacent content development program.
Steve previously provided senior-level expertise on physical and cyber infrastructure protection and intelligence program policy for client engagements at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including analysis of threats to dams, energy, rail, transit, and other critical infrastructure. He has over 25 years of program management, critical infrastructure protection, and national security experience, including over 16 years supporting DHS and the Intelligence Community (IC), with analysis of cyber, terrorism, and weapons of mass destruction issues, and nearly five years in the U.S. Army. He has also served in leadership and sales roles in aviation and media organizations.
This event will be held virtually. Registration is required:
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