“If our economy is already space-based, so is our society. Cyber security is strategic for the 8,000 satellites in orbit, while enemy states and hackers lurk. Space is a useful but vulnerable economic domain. The most threatened sector is government. Essential components of our life on Earth depend on those few thousand objects. Planetary observation tools are substantial for several critical systems: from finance to agriculture, from transportation to intelligence. Thanks to satellite transmissions, a significant part of our smartphones’ data connection and theInternet of Things exist. Hardly an average citizen could imagine a week without weather forecasts and directions. Space is actually an economic domain and has become so thanks to services we have discovered. Useful but also vulnerable. That’s why a successful cyber attack could have significant repercussions on our lives.”
These are the words in our Director, Matteo Lucchetti, interviewed by Federico Gennari Santori for Infra Journal
Read the full article here:
https://www.infrajournal.com/it/w/cybersecurity-aerospaziale-satelliti