Скачать или смотреть EOcafe: Understanding cybersecurity challenges and obligations in the space sector

As digital technologies have become increasingly embedded in society, the security threat of digital or cyber disruption has the potential to impact us all. The space sector is not spared. As strategic demands place a higher importance on space assets, and the global geopolitical context becomes increasingly volatile, the threat of cyber disruption becomes greater. Businesses, operating through the use of space assets, are hence at risk. But how severe is that risk and how can companies be protected against it?

Cybersecurity threats have an impact on all entities and infrastructure in the space ecosystem, whether the infrastructure is in space or on the ground, upstream or downstream entities, and the public or private sector. Given the critical nature of cybersecurity threats and their potentially wide-reaching impacts, the European Union has introduced several cybersecurity requirements through legislative and regulatory instruments such as the NIS 2 Directive and the EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence. It is also highly likely that security and resilience will be a key pillar of the future European Space Act.

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