Cyber

Star City partnership

by Mark Rowe

The cyber-security firm Kaspersky has a partnership with the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center – in Star City in Russia where cosmonauts prepare to go to space. The company will hold training for cosmonauts, as well as IT specialists at the centre, to educate them on the cybersecurity landscape.

Space development and exploration is actively driven by technology and it is important that the industry remains protected, the firm says. As cyberattack in normal daily life can be costly and lead to extreme consequences, so similar threats could be even more devastating in space.

The Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center, a Roscosmos enterprise, works with space agencies such as NASA (USA), CSA (Canada), ESA (Europe) and JAXA (Japan). It is in the centre that cosmonauts complete their training and pass their most important final pre-flight exams before going to the international space stating.

Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky, said: “We’re proud to support this center, founded at the time of the very beginning of space exploration, and which now trains astronauts from all over the world. It’s very exciting for us to be involved in developing scientific progress – the restless movement forward (and upward and outward!) of humanity. Back in 2012, I visited the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center for an excursion and to learn about the unique tests that astronauts undergo there to ready them for space travel. It is indeed an extraordinary – and vital – institution in the field of human space exploration.”

The Gagarin Center has been supporting manned space exploration for almost 60 years; it organises the selection, training and medical examination of cosmonauts.

Pavel Vlasov, head of the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center, said: “We are united by uniqueness, striving to be the first and the best. Although we work in various fields, we have shared values based on a passion for own business, innovations and a desire to achieve set goals. I am sure that the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center will be able to reach new horizons in providing manned space programmes with the support of an international company such as Kaspersky.”

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