Didcot Cafe Scientifique Increasing Cyber Resilience of Space Infrastructure Jessie Hamill-Stewar

Name: Didcot Cafe Scientifique Increasing Cyber Resilience of Space Infrastructure Jessie Hamill-Stewar
Start: 2025-01-21T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Cornerstone Arts Centre

Schedule

Tue, 21 Jan, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cornerstone Arts Centre | Didcot, EN

Increasing Cyber Resilience of Space Infrastructure - Jessie Hamill-Stewart
Tuesday 21st January 2025, 7.30pm - 9pm, Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
Space has become critical to today’s modern world. Satellite systems, such as global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) provide positioning, navigation, and timing services on which critical industries increasingly rely, including finance, transportation and electricity. As a result, it has become more vulnerable to a variety of threats, including cyber attacks. Attackers may be motivated by the perceived gains of widespread disruption which would create ripples across multiple industries. In order to protect citizens against widespread disruption to everyday services, the state protects national space infrastructure and dependent systems against cyber attacks. Resilience is a crucial element of this, ensuring that infrastructure bounces back should a disaster occur.
This talk outlines the importance of cooperation in order to secure space infrastructure, as well as unique challenges and national resilience approaches.
Jessie Hamill-Stewart
Cyber Security CDT (PhD) researcher at University of Bristol and University of Bath, conducting interdisciplinary research about the cyber security and resilience of space infrastructure. I also lead the CySpace Connected Capability Network, funded by Satellite Applications Catapult, which involves mapping capabilities and requirements relating to cyber security and space domain awareness throughout the UK.