Holding the high ground: Defending satellites from cyber attack
March 31, 2023
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The Cyber Edge by Signal, 31 March 2023.
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Holding the high ground: Defending satellites from cyber attack
Summary
MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Space Cyber-Resiliency group at Air Force Research Laboratory-Space Vehicles Directorate have prototyped a practical, operationally capable and secure-by-design spaceflight software platform called Cyber-Hardened Satellite Software (CHSS) for building space mission applications with security, recoverability and performance as first-class system design priorities. Following a successful evaluation of CHSS against an existing U.S. Space Force (USSF) mission, the CHSS platform is currently being extended to support hybrid space vehicle architectures that incorporate both CHSS-aware and legacy subsystems. CHSS has the potential to revolutionize the cyber-resiliency of space systems and substantially ease the burden of defensive cyber operations (DCO).