Who Owns the Cybersecurity of Space?

Orbital Frontier Is the Next Ungoverned Internet, and We Have Left It Open to Attack Maryam Shoraka • November 11, 2025

As a cybersecurity professional, I have spent decades watching humanity build digital castles without moats. We did it with the internet, with artificial intelligence and with critical infrastructure. Now, we are doing it again, this time in orbit. We are racing to commercialize space to connect the unconnected and monetize orbit, yet we are ignoring the most important question: Who owns the cybersecurity of space?

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There is no comprehensive and binding international cybersecurity framework governing satellites, orbital systems or ground-to-space communications. Australia's growing space sector, spanning manufacturing in South Australia, launch facilities in the Northern Territory and emerging tracking infrastructure in Queensland, is expanding quickly. Yet these assets rely on software ...