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Regulating competing foreign interests in space complements the need for more controls over increasingly crowded cyberspace, say experts from Flinders University.
As the Australian Government prepares its 2023-2030 national cybersecurity strategy, the University’s Jeff Bleich Centre is launching the first Australian Space Cyber Forum to discuss space security.
“Cyberspace and outer space are interdependent. As awareness of potential cyber threats to both public and private space assets become more widespread, space powers have started to incorporate these issues in national policies,” says Flinders Associate Professor Rodrigo Praino, director of the Jeff Bleich Centre, a research group looking at digital technology, security, governance and democracy.
“Interference from foreign powers can potentially disrupt our financial, economic, civil infrastructure, defence and diplomatic processes including elections.
“Many of the technologies we take for granted in the modern world are increasingly critically reliant…
