Gonçalo Lopes

Satellites Forecasting Fires: A Global Perspective as Summer Peaks

Cybersecurity, Social, Space, TechnologyAugust 5, 2025755ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Southern Europe is on fire, quite literally. As of early August, large-scale wildfires are tearing through Portugal, Greece, and Turkey, with extreme heat and wind accelerating their spread. In Portugal, tens of thousands of hectares have already burned this season across Castelo Branco and Portalegre, where fire crews are now stretched thin. In Greece, blazes…

Untracked, Unrotated, Unsafe: The State of SSH Key Management

Cybersecurity, Defense, TechnologyJuly 22, 2025715ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

SSH keys remain one of the most widely used yet least governed components of secure infrastructure. While their role in authentication is fundamental, particularly for system administrators, DevOps pipelines, and cloud access, their management continues to be inconsistent, fragmented, and frequently overlooked. This neglect creates operational risk, undermines compliance, and opens opportunities for lateral movement…

When Space Gives You 1.5TB of Galaxies, What Comes Next?

Cybersecurity, Social, SpaceJuly 16, 2025574ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

This past June, something remarkable happened. The COSMOS-Web team released 1.5 terabytes of processed data from the James Webb Space Telescope: the most detailed map of the early universe humanity has ever seen. With it came over 800,000 galaxies, spanning 13.5 billion years of cosmic history. And, for once, the barrier to entry wasn’t a…

Europe’s Space Ambitions Depend on One Thing: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity, Defense, SpaceJuly 10, 2025582ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

When the EU Space Act landed in June 2025, it didn’t just outline regulations. It sent a clear message: European space systems must be secure, resilient, and self-reliant. Cybersecurity, once treated as a separate add-on, is now baked into the mission architecture, and that's long overdue. The Act isn’t light reading. It's a dense, policy-heavy…

The Silent Quantum Countdown: Why Organizational Inaction Is the Real Threat

Defense, TechnologyJuly 8, 2025722ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

An uncomfortable reality confronts the cybersecurity landscape: while debates about quantum computing timelines persist, adversaries actively execute long-term decryption strategies. Nation-states and sophisticated threat actors are harvesting encrypted data today: financial records, intellectual property, government communications, with the explicit intent to decrypt it once quantum computers mature. This "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" (HNDL) approach, confirmed by…

E2EQSS: Building Resilient Infrastructure for the Quantum Era

Brand, Space, TechnologyJune 26, 2025601ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Quantum computing no longer belongs to the realm of theoretical physics. Its real-world implications are approaching, and with them, the potential collapse of current encryption standards. In response, the European Union has launched its Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), preparing a continent-wide transition to quantum-resilient security systems. This is not just a precaution,…