Space Security

[crisp flax]

Hi everyone,

I'm very new to this channel and was wondering if anyone else had an interest in space security? I'm at the beginning of my cyber career, at the moment I am an infosec analyst aspiring to become a security architect.

I've always been fascinated with space and since joining my cyber career the security side of it has become a big part of my personal studies.

Does anyone have any recommendations on reading material in this area or anyone to follow in this area? I'm half way through the Outer Treaty document and it is very outdated to what we need to include these days. Wasn't sure if there was anything going through the motions to be passed to supersede this treaty at the moment as well.

Thanks for all the help, tips and advice! 😁

[unkempt orbit]

I could ask for you. Also, there was a cool talk about satellites and HTTP protocols a couple of years ago, I’ll try to find the paper for you when I get home. If I forget, please nudge me

[unkempt orbit]

Hey I’m sorry, I for some reason can’t find any record of the talk I mentioned and I don’t have time to look for it any more today.

If you can be at all specific about what area of security you’re talking about I can try to ask around for you.

[pastel dust]

Check out the book Original Sin by Bleddyn Bowen, here he is presenting it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX751_TiJqQ

[dapper roost]

https://www.darkreading.com/edge/how-researchers-hijacked-a-satellite

Preview of a Black Hat presentation for this year. This one contains some interesting claims about COTS hardware and software, as well as many links to other reading of interest.

[spiral crest]

https://www.csis.org/analysis/getting-track

[wary idol]

I don't really know what you are interested in. Even though I seems like a small topic it's a very wide field spanning politics, security, engineering, economy and of course cyber.

You mentioned the OST. There is an open ended working group regarding space topics under the roof of the UN. Different states discussing about behaviour in space.

[dull garden]

I’ve published some space law review articles that intersect with your interest:

• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4372303
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4539835
• https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4207069

One of the recent Bellingcat hackathon projects was on space junk: https://github.com/AnushikhaC/SpaceJunkies