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Cybersecurity in Space is Hard; In Cislunar Space, it’s Really Hard

In space, cybersecurity is hard. Many of the strategies cyber defenders rely on daily to protect terrestrial networks, like centrally managed anomaly detection, regular patching of emergent software vulnerabilities, and replacement of outdated or compromised hardware, are difficult, and sometimes impossible or unaffordable, in orbit.

But in cislunar space between the Earth and the Moon, and on the lunar surface, experts and former officials tell Via Satellite, cybersecurity is going to be even harder. Many of the work-arounds, substitutes, and novel strategies developed to protect assets in orbit — especially the new software-defined Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) constellations— aren’t going to work…[continued]