Cybersecurity for space missions is not optional and should be taken seriously. The barrier to entry for threat actors has significantly shrunk, exposing organizations to attacks from hardened cybercriminals and script kiddies alike.
While Europe’s burgeoning commercial space industry is facing some challenges, the European Space Agency is taking specific steps to boost defenses, such as planning to provide access for organizations to its space cybersecurity operations center (C-SOC), which is currently under development, and providing tools to those in the space industry.