Gregory Falco is an American inventor and researcher. Falco is a Professor at

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. His work lies mainly in the area of cybersecurity research and its aerospace applications.

Life and career

Falco earned his B.S. from

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in 2010, M.S. from

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in 2012. and Ph.D., from the

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in 2018. He completed a predoctoral fellowship with the Cyber Security Project at

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. His postdoctoral research was conducted at the

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(CSAIL) at

and at the Cyber Policy Center at

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. Falco's PhD was funded by NASA’s

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to develop an AI system to automatically enumerate threats to space mission systems. He began his career at

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where he was an executive in the Strategy & Sustainability practice. While at Accenture, he lectured at Columbia University and taught a course on Smart Cities and the Evolution of Sustainability. Falco's main area of work is aerospace security research. In 2018, his paper ''Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems,'' which included recommendations to reduce the cyber risk of the emergent commercial space sector, was published in the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. His work on the topic titled ''Job One For Space Force: Space Asset Cybersecurity'' was published by Harvard’s Belfer Center. He was listed in

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in Enterprise Technology for contributions to industrial control security with his company NeuroMesh, acquired by

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in 2022. In 2021, Falco joined the faculty at

as an Assistant Professor at their Institute for Assured Autonomy. Falco is the director of the Aerospace ADVERSARY Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. In 2022, he published a monograph co-authored with Eric Rosenbach on cyber risk management titled ''Confronting Cyber Risk: An Embedded Endurance Strategy for Cybersecurity''. He was awarded a

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Young Faculty Award for his project Orbital Resilient Blockchain Interagent Transaction Service (ORBITS) Architecture: A Resilient, Zero-Trust Architecture for Hosted Payloads and Space Infrastructure as a Service. Falco is a member of the Space Systems Critical Infrastructure Working Group hosted by Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. In 2023, Falco discussed the

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as an aerospace security expert with

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and

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