Aero & Space Cybersecurity Market & Threat Intelligence
Ce jeudi 29 juin, Cyberinflight était présent au COMET CYBER, un évènement dédié à la gouvernance de la cybersécurité des programmes spatiaux
#space #cybersecurity.
Florent Rizzo, fondateur et PDG de Cyberinflight a animé une présentation avec Paul Varela sur le sujet « RETEX Space ISAC US / EU avec EUSPA ».
Cyberinflight tient à remercier le CNES pour l’organisation de ce bel évènement.
The information below is issued from several Russian media, it should therefore be treated with great caution
During the months following the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Roscosmos experienced several waves of DDoS attacks.
Roscosmos specified that on March 3rd and 4th, 2022, the websites of state-owned companies and industrial enterprises were subjected to a massive hashtag#cyberattack from abroad, originating from different IP addresses registered in various Western countries, mainly the United States, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Australia. Specifically, we are referring to the sources of Energuya, the M.V. Khrunichev Center, TsENKI, the Russian Space Systems (RKS) company, TsNIIMash, ISS-Reshenyov, and Uralvagonzavod.
In June 2022, the website of the Russian hashtag#space agency was once again targeted by a DDoS attack, which occurred after the publication of satellite images of NATO member countries “decision centers”, said Dmitry Strougovets, the head of the state-owned company’s press service.
Ivan Grigorov, the acting director of the “Zarya” Scientific and Technical Center (the parent organization of Roscosmos for information hashtag#security ), stated that “DDoS attacks are the third most common among cyberattacks (attempts at malware injection and hashtag#network analysis being the first and second). The trend is remarkable: in the past six months, more of these attacks have been recorded than in 2021”.
Cyberattacks on the space industry around the world rose sharply following the outbreak of war in Ukraine. CyberInflight has carried out extensive data collection and analysis through several databases.
In case you and your organization are interested to purchase one or more database, contact us at this adress : research@cyberinflight.com
The Space Development Agency (SDA) of the Space Force is making significant progress in enhancing cybersecurity applied to the space domain. The SDA has entrusted SAIC with the task of developing and maintaining a cloud-based “application factory.” This platform will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying “cyber-resilient” battle management, command, and control communications (BMC3) software for upcoming low Earth orbit satellites.
SAIC’s application factory will serve as a central hub for testing and deploying mission-specific software, ensuring interoperability within a modular framework. This innovative approach will even enable satellite upgrades in orbit, highlighting the importance of cybersecurity in space operations.
SAIC’s work does not stop there. They will develop “compute modules” for the BMC3 hashtag#software, ensuring that satellites can exchange information amongst themselves and, most importantly, with ground operators. The software environment of the application factory will be used to develop these modules and verify their functionality.
The SDA contract, valued at up to $64 million over four years, mandates that SAIC will develop, implement, and maintain the hashtag#architecture and infrastructure necessary to create a “clearing house” for other contractors who are developing mission-specific applications.
The emphasis on cybersecurity by the SDA and SAIC not only strengthens the safety of space systems but also reinforces resilience of hashtag#space infrastructures against #cyber_threats.
Ten years ago, a major cyberattack was discovered on the Australian company NewSat.
The hashtag#network had to be rebuilt from scratch in secret. That work took almost a year and cost nearly $1 million.
One former tech employee at the company told the press it was understood by the staff that NewSat had sensitives communications interception equipments in its data centre (including highly confidential plans for a privately financed geostationary communications satellite). Because of the company’s state of information hashtag#security, the Australian Government had refused to hand NewSat a restricted NSA hashtag#encryption tool for its satellites.
Intelligence services have stated that in these cases, they suspect the attackers were sponsored by China.
“Given we were up against China, state-sponsored, a lot of money behind them and a lot of resources and we were only a very small IT team, it certainly wasn’t a fair fight for us”, said Newsat’s former IT manager Daryl Peter.
While the company has carried communications for resources and fossil fuel companies, as well as the US military’s campaign in Afghanistan, Mr Peter said the real target for the cyber infiltration was its plans for a Lockheed Martin-designed hashtag#satellite dubbed Jabiru-1.
“The way it was described to us was they are so deep inside our network it’s like we had someone sitting over our shoulder for anything we did” said Daryl Peter.
Cybersecurity issues in the hashtag#space sector have taken a new turn recently, but they are not new. This attack demonstrates that hashtag#cyber espionage activities against space infrastructures have been used intensively since the early 2010s.
The number of cyberattacks targeting the space sector every year continues to rise. CyberInflight collects and analyzes these attacks as well as threat actors and cybersecurity organizations involved in the space sector. This research and information analysis can be found in our market intelligence report on space cybersecurity.
For further information about our report or our set of databases, please contact us at the following address: research@cyberinflight.com
CyberInflight’s digest for Q2 2021 is out ! In this digest, we want to give an introduction to the CMMC framework (Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification), which measures cybersecurity maturity and aligns a set of processes and practices with the type and sensitivity of information to be protected.
Here is the agenda for the digest:
I. Introduction to CMMC
II. Threat Intelligence
III. Aerospace Tech Review webinar presentation
You can register to our Quarterly Digest service here or write us at digest@cyberinflight.com to submit a topic of your choice.
Here is a mindmap of the Space Overlay.
The NIST special publication SP 800-53 Rev. 5 entitled “Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations” provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and assets.
Government programs and organizations have attempted to take portions of NIST governance documents and apply it to space systems. The Space Overlay takes the existing control sets (such as the CNSSI No. 1253 and the NIST 800-53 Rev. 5) and articulates what could be applicable to the spacecraft.
Find out more in our strategic market intelligence report dedicated to Space Cybersecurity. Participate to the interview process here: contact@cyberinflight.com
In April 2021, CyberInflight became a member of Space ISAC. CyberInflight is proud to be the first french company to be part of this prestigious association.
Space ISAC serves to facilitate collaboration across the global space industry to enhance the ability to prepare for and respond to vulnerabilities, incidents, and threats; to disseminate timely and actionable information among member entities; and to serve as the primary communications channel for space sector with respect to this information.
Space ISAC is the only all-threats security information source for the public and private space sector. It will be the most comprehensive, single point source for data, facts and analysis on space security and threats to space assets. Space ISAC also provides analysis and resources to support response, mitigation and resilience initiatives.
CyberInflight will bring its expertise in market intelligence in the domain of aerospace cybersecurity to help Space ISAC members. Our participation in this association will allow us to gather, consolidate and analyze information in order to provide comprehensive resources for the space industry.
Our new digest is out ! In this document, we provide a thorough review of all the patents related to the topic of aircraft cybersecurity. Did you know that there are approximately 180 patents on this topic and that 60% of them were issued in the last 2 years ? This certainly show a growing interest or a growing concern regarding potential cyberattack onboard an aircraft.
The scope covered by these patents is very broad and covers a wide set of topics. Look at the mindmap below to get a better idea.
In this digest, as usual, the list of noticeable facts, in particular cyberattacks, on aerospace stakeholders for Q1 2021.
Here is the agenda for the digest:
I.Patents on aircraft cybersecurity
II.Threat Intelligence
You can register to our Quarterly Digest service here or write us at digest@cyberinflight.com to submit a topic of your choice.
On March 10, 2021, CyberInflight was honored to present some of its research work to one of the ICAO instance dedicated to the implementation of the AIDC protocol (Air Traffic Services Inter-Facility Data Communication).
This day of presentations and webinars was organized by ICAO’s NACC regional office (North American and Central America) to facilitate the deployment of the AIDC protocol among the various member states.
The AIDC protocol is a data link application that provides the capability to exchange data between air traffic service units during the notification, coordination and transfer of aircraft between flight information regions.
CyberInflight brought a general market approach to the implementation of this protocol which has been initially specified in 1999 and which implementation requires important coordination and bespoke adaptation in the various member states.
Thanks ICAO for your confidence and a special thanks to Avila Mayda for making this possible !
Presentation available in the download section
On March 8, 2021, CANSO published its Air Traffic Management Cybersecurity Policy Template to help states implement cybersecurity mechanisms and culture across entire ATM systems and security operations.
This document recommends the implementation of best practices based on a list of reference documents and provides a list of requirements to aviation stakeholders such as Civil Aviation Authorities, Air Navigation Service Providers, Airports Operators and any other aviation organization that is part of the State Aviation System to ensure the implementation of cybersecurity procedures and best practices.
This document has been written in cooperation with ICAO and Airbus.
For this occasion, we would like to share 4 mindmaps with our followers synthetizing information from the following documents. A complete description of these regulatory papers is explained in our Digest on Regulations.
