Cybersecurity for space sector
Connectivity, navigation and time positioning references, imaging or measurement: space sector offers an array of services that are essential to our everyday life, our industries, our economies. The opportunities offered by the new space, as a reinforcement or a complement for historical capabilities, bring rich, unprecedented and accessible solutions.
Implications in space sector
A strategical sector by nature, space sector is not safe from cyber threats, as we have been reminded of by recent incidents impacting various space segments designers or operators.
In the same time, it remains challenging for cyber managers to strengthen cybersecurity in the space ecosystem, in a strong regulatory and competitive context. What are the difficulties? How can our Hybrid Cyber Range help strengthen cybersecurity in space sector? What are DIATEAM operational successes in that matter? Let’s see.
DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range, which can be used as a digital twin, contributes to strengthening cybersecurity of the digital systems space sector players design or operate, and allows them to successfully take up the numerous challenges they have to face.
Defending space digital systems in depth and from start to finish
Space digital systems are exposed to both generic and specific threats, which can jeopardize their supply chain, as well as their different segments (space segment, ground segment, user segment).
The ability to replicate the whole of this digital ecosystem in its diversity, complexity and heterogeneity makes it possible to anticipate, model, reproduce, and evaluate one’s readiness to detect the various cyber threats which could occur on it. When it comes to availability, integrity or privacy offences, the better you know the threats, the better you will be prepared to protect yourself against it. DIATEAM can rely on its internal Red Team, on its proven experience in the space sector, on its Hybrid Cyber Range software solution and on its close relationship with its clients and the issues they face to make it possible to evaluate, in a safe system, the resilience of space systems against advanced threats. Dependencies modeling, resilience tests, hardware equipment integration through hybrid connection are capabilities which directly address challenges faced by CISOs and security architects to evaluate and ensure availability, integrity and privacy of the whole ecosystem, and to anticipate emerging threats.
Securing life cycle
In a context of strengthening regulations in the space sector, DIATEAM Hybrid Cyber Range should ideally be used throughout the whole product life cycle, from its design to its decommissioning.
The major interest of the Hybrid Cyber Range is indeed to model and secure the whole life cycle of digital products, to perform operations which would not be feasible in production for operational, security or safety matters. It is also very well suited to implement security maintenance, or patch management processes, e.g. to perform non-regression tests, especially with long life cycles as they are in the space sector.
Raising awareness, educating, training
Hybrid Cyber Range is obviously a perfect tool to raise awareness, educate and train for cyber crisis management.
Awareness-raising is usually intended for executives and decision makers, project managers, technicians, but also for the workforce as a whole to have them face cyber threats that are specific to the space sector, as well as operational consequences that are potentially critical for the sector. Hybrid Cyber Range also makes it possible to produce theoretical and practical training content, and to generate training paths for the staff working in space sector. Finally, training is about making technical or operational cyber crisis scenarios by simulating cyber incident scenarios in conditions that are very close to reality, also when multiple actors (public, private sector: designers, operators, contractors…), see multiple countries, are concerned. These trainings, which DIATEAM has been a specialist of for many years, allow to strengthen response plans, to test coordination between technical and operational teams in order to improve decision-making and reactivity in a crisis situation.
Maximizing return on investment
In a budgetary context that is sometimes constrained, Hybrid Cyber Range is the perfect tool to maximize return on investment.
Designed to work on collaborative mode, even on complex international projects, its usage possibilities go far beyond the cyber frame, and it can also be used for data generation and Research & Development operations for the space sector. DIATEAM offers a wide array of possibilities (acquisition, renting, content provision, exercises hosting…) which can provide for a wide range of needs.
Business and technological ethics
It’s in DIATEAM’s DNA to accompany its clients in order to ensure them, with time, as much autonomy as possible.
We do not, and we never will artificially limit our Hybrid Cyber Range capacities. Based on free and open components, it offers maximal independence and interoperability. Finally, you are and will always remain owners of the content you create on it.
