No. 343: Understanding Cybersecurity in Outer Space

Author(s): Clémence Poirier
Editor(s): Névine Schepers
Series Editor(s): Névine Schepers
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 343
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2024

Cyberspace and outer space share many similarities due to their open, shared, expansive, transboundary, and intangible nature. The digitalization of space has increasingly interlinked space and cyberspace, exposing satellites, ground stations, and user terminals to cyber threats. Understanding the links between space and cyberspace is critical to better protect the space assets on which society relies.

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