SCR Space Cyber Range

  • Status
    Ongoing
  • Status date
    2025-04-07
  • Activity Code
    3D.037
Objectives

Develop the Space Cyber Range as a comprehensive simulation environment for testing space technologies, ensuring scalability and resilience. It will consolidate components and tools from various providers onto a user-friendly platform.

Challenges

The key challenges of the project include the lack of common standards across different components and the necessity for rapid updates to the Space Cyber Range to address emerging threats effectively.

Benefits

The Space Cyber Range platform is a comprehensive solution designed to address the evolving needs of space and ground operations. Designed to meet the diverse requirements of operators, cybersecurity professionals, and technology developers, the SCR offers a range of benefits to address specific challenges:

Benefit 1: Enhanced cybersecurity knowledge and solutions

  • Gain deep insights into cybersecurity risks specific to space assets.
  • Access validated and tested solutions, ensuring robust cyber defense.
  • Achieve end-to-end testing capabilities for comprehensive security assessments.

Benefit 2: In-depth understanding and monetisation opportunities

  • Expand knowledge base on space solutions and applications.
  • Validate solutions to ensure readiness, backed by certificates.
  • Unlock monetisation opportunities, generating additional revenue streams.

Benefit 3: Knowledge sharing, efficiency, and fault identification

  • Support knowledge-sharing opportunities within the space cybersecurity community.
  • Optimise resource utilisation, reducing costs and improving efficiency.
  • Identify and rectify faults early, enhancing the quality of end-products.
Features

The main features of the Space Cyber Range are as follows:

  • Test and validate: Assess space software cyber readiness to reduce vulnerabilities and risks. Capabilities include penetration testing, communication testing, integration testing, performance testing, reliability and recovery testing, as well as testing using open-source and other means. Additionally, the SCR provides tools to assess new space solutions against various regulations, with a view toward future accreditation and/or certification needs.
  • Train and exercise: Create space-related environments and simulate potential cyber threats within secure artificial environments (cyber ranges) to train users for more effective defense capabilities. The SCR will offer team-based hybrid exercises, multi-party exercises, collision avoidance scenarios, live-fire exercises, and other cyber defense exercises. Additionally, users can incorporate their own content into the platform.
  • Knowledge sharing: The SCR will function as a marketplace for sharing space cybersecurity-related content, including articles, blog posts, academic publications, and manuals. Additionally, it will support the organisation of various cyber defense-related events with a space infrastructure component.
System Architecture

The Cyber Range architecture/system can be divided into five main layers/components:

  1. Infrastructure
  2. Cyber Range Platform
  3. Gamenet
  4. Scenarios
  5. Use cases

The planned technology will rely on the fully functional Cyber Range platform from CybExer Technologies (including Portal, VLM, VLM-UP, ISA, self-study platform) as well as Spaceit mission operations platform, satellite and ground station simulators. Additionally, several third-party technologies from well-established space-related organisations.

Plan

The activity will last for 25 months and consists of three phases: Technology, Product, and Demonstration.

Current status

The project kickoff was on 18 February 2025.

Documentation

Documentation may be requested

Prime Contractor

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Last update
2025-04-18 06:35