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lite, however, is both highly resource- intensive and extremely dangerous. While it is possible to “jam” a satellite, for instance, it’s just about impossible to do so without being immediately traced. What’s more, the majority of satellites are equipped with safe- guards, such as unique IDs and en- cryption, to protect against up-linking attacks. So even for experienced hackers, the idea of hacking a satellite and getting away with it remains a pipe dream. “A business will be able to connect directly from their secure facility to our net- work infrastructure in space; that’s basically a network around the equator of the earth,” explained Dennis Gatens, Cloud Constella- tion’s chief commercial officer. “So, there is no terrestrial infrastructure between point A and point B. If you remove terrestrial infra- structure from the equation, you take away the significant risk of having to use a giant network of networks, which requires multi- ple service providers to enable connectivity from various points on earth.” at your service: Xaas Worldwide True Private Cloud Revenue by Segment, 2016-2017 Source: Wikibon 25 20 15 10 2016 1 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 2 3 4 Hosted True Private Cloud True Private Cloud On-premises 2017 5 0 Revenue $B 5.0 8.1 9.7 10.6 Number of Network Dev Source: Masergy Worldwide Cybersecurity Market Forecast ($B) Source: Cybersecurity Ventures; Gartner $600 $500 $400 $300 $200 $100 $- 2016 2016/17 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Market Forecast Priorities for New IT Source: Computer Economics 5.3 9.4 12.9 14.9 % of MSPs managing this number of vendors 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Percent of respondents September - October, 2018 | Channel Vision 53

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