Space systems now underpin a growing share of federal and daily commercial operations, from navigation and communications to intelligence collection and emergency-response data. At the same time, these environments have become more software-defined, cloud-connected and dependent on enterprise-sized identity systems.

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Sean MacKirdy is the AVP for national security at Elastic.