Vinton Cerf: Outer space could be next frontier for cybersecurity | NextGov

By Aliya Sternstein, NextGov, Posted 06/12/09

Link: http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090611_8017.php?oref=rss?zone=ngtoday

Google executive Vinton Cerf, known as the father of the Internet, said a tool for securing ad hoc networks used in surveillance might be sitting in an extraterrestrial Internet that he and NASA have been testing. A cybersecurity strategy "has been waiting in the interplanetary Internet" Cerf and NASA began developing a decade ago to regulate data transmission among outer space devices, he said on Wednesday at a networking reception sponsored by the trade group TechAmerica. "We will be applying alien technology to our terrestrial requirements."