From SpaceX to Blue Origin, space is getting crowded, with an estimated 2,877 satellites deployed in 2023 alone, the vast majority of them for communication.
Yet, with the increasing amount of communication routed via space, satellites are becoming an attractive target for cybercriminals. In 2020, a cybersecurity researcher from Oxford University said he had been able to intercept the data traffic from various corporate networks relayed via satellite.
Since then, the situation has anything but improved. Today, the question of whether adversaries have compromised satellites or spacecraft is becoming a matter of national security, as well as raising the stakes of potentially exposing sensitive corporate secrets.
The thriving space industry and its growing ties to the world economy on Earth warrant a closer look at how every company and organization is vulnerable to space-based cyberattacks. There are concrete steps we can take now to thwart the bad actors.
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