Traditional hacking skills are only half of the equation for a threat actor trying to take over a space-based asset. Once a spacecraft or ground station is penetrated, a sophisticated attacker needs to know how to cause harm to an on-orbit system. This discussion would look at several threat surfaces and how security professionals are working to secure them.
• Data-link security – Space systems are controlled by a data link from the ground. How secure is that link?
Speaker – Howie Weiss, Security WG Chair, CCSDS
• S/C Control security – the cyber-physical nature of onboard spacecraft systems require that an attacker understand spacecraft dynamics and system interactions in order to gain control, how are onboard systems protected?
Speaker – Aerospace Crop. Cyber lead, Jandria Alexander
Moderated by Dave LaVallee - Senior Project Lead, Space Sector, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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