CISA urges space system operators to focus cyber efforts on securing ground control systems

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has identified securing ground-based components of space systems as a high priority due to their interconnectivity, in a guide developed through a public-private partnership aimed at ensuring assets in orbit can support critical infrastructure.

“With the development of new and increased use of space resources, cybersecurity professionals are seeing threats and vulnerabilities that are not necessarily present in terrestrial operations or may be observed in a different manner with different impacts. Space operations have...