
Roger Patrick
Director of Sales and Business Development at TERMA, specializing in spacecraft control systems and ground segment space operations
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Jul 23, 2026
Space Cafe Radio - Cyber Threats in Space: Why the Ground Segment Is the Real Target with Roger Patrick
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Roger PatrickGUEST
LEO constellations generally require quite a lot of assets, not just the assets in space, but the assets on the ground, and the system is, as with any system, only as strong as its weakest link.

Roger PatrickGUEST
People talk a lot about satellite jamming, signal spoofing, which are real threats, but the real one is the terrestrial infrastructure, which has a lot of software in it and is an easy target for malicious activities.

Roger PatrickGUEST
For instance, you don't have to break the spacecraft encryption to do serious damage.

Roger PatrickGUEST
You can abuse user access rights and a number of other things, which are very similar to the threats on other terrestrial systems.
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Torsten KrieningHOST
Coming back to Zero Trust in space, can you explain that for our audience what Zero Trust in that context mean, and is that real?