Position Overview#
Role: Cybersecurity Research Intern
Company: Kurtek
Location: College Park, MD
Duration: September 2023 - December 2023
Responsibilities#
- Analyzed cybersecurity risks for NASA’s Next Generation Network (NGN), focusing on integrating commercial cloud platforms and non-government entities, and developed strategies to mitigate identified threats
- Reviewed NASA’s cybersecurity methods and adapted them to meet the unique challenges of the NGN architecture, ensuring compliance with federal cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171
- Investigated mission-specific security challenges in space communications, applying insights from CCSDS reports to propose tailored cybersecurity solutions for the NGN, emphasizing maintaining operational availability during potential security infrastructure degradation