Leading the design, development, qualification and operational readiness of the Cyber Safety and Security Operational Centre (C-SOC) for the European Space Agency (ESA) in Germany.
With space infrastructure becoming increasingly critical for the European economy and society, ESA has created a new centre for cyber security, the C-SOC, to provide cyber-monitoring and management for the entire agency, including its assets and corporate and space system infrastructure. The development of C-SOC is being handled by a large consortium led by Leonardo.
As a subsidiary of Leonardo, Telespazio Germany is currently leading the German contribution, development and implementation activities related to the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany. We coordinate with all of the project partners, ESA’s European Space Security and Education Centre (ESEC) in Redu, Belgium, and the European Centre of Earth Observation (ESRIN) in Italy.
Telespazio Germany is involved in all phases of the project, from user requirements consolidation up to final service validation and acceptance. We are responsible for the development of specific services for Mission Operations Infrastructure (MOI) monitoring, trade-off analysis for critical design decisions, RAMS Analysis, development/provision of Asset management and Service Management tools, and procedures validation. We support the concept for operations (CONOPS) for ESOC and we organise the on-boarding of ESOC tenants. We are responsible for the C-SOC deployment integration, test and validation for ESOC tenants and the interfacing to the ESOC Network Operations Centre (NOC). Finally, we support service validation at ESOC (early operations).
The project successfully passed Critical Design Review in February 2023. The development and deployment is following with a Service Readiness Review planned for mid-2024.
Relying on 40 years of experience in the design and development of space missions and support to ESOC in Darmstadt, Telespazio Germany is instrumental to the requirement elicitation and the on-boarding of the space mission tenants. Our direct collaboration with Leonardo strengthen significantly our offering.
We are delivering a fully distributed system deployed on all ESA sites together with the definition of operational concept and all required processes, as well as initial operations of the system prior to Service Readiness Review. The collaboration with partners recognized as key experts in the field is in this perspective essential.
The existing cybersecurity in place in ESA is to date partial, fragmented and operated independently in each centre. The new system provides a holistic approach to cybersecurity for ESA and space missions in general, building upon the existing capabilities already deployed in the various ESA centres.
When in place, the system will support the integration of cybersecurity in ESA at a deeper level than what exist today, leading to a global evolution of the ESA operations. The C-SOC is a major element of the cybersecurity roadmap of ESA that facilitates the integration of cybersecurity features and practices in the organisation.
ESA expects to extend the use of the C-SOC to potentially all space mission operators in Europe. The experience developed in the project will allow Telespazio to enhance their portfolio in the ICT/Cybersecurity domain and develop activities based on similar techniques for our customers.
As end user, ESA is benefiting from Telespazio’s thorough understanding of their systems and processes, which ensures that the ESA/ESOC tenant’s requirements are understood and implemented in line with their expectations.
As prime contractor, Leonardo is benefiting from the long experience of Telespazio in the domain of space mission operations and space mission engineering processes, together with our strong relationship with ESA and ESOC in particular. In addition, Telespazio provides the Consortium with a strong anchorage in Germany and support from the German ESA delegation.
Our unique expertise includes Mission and Ground Segment Engineering and Operations, strong knowledge about processes and procedures related to Mission Operations, relevant experience with the security functions currently implemented at ESA, state-of-the-art security operations centres, security frameworks and technologies, deep know-how of the related systems and infrastructures, as well as an understanding of the issues relevant to the C-SOC project.
Our strategic setup is based on an Integrated Engineering Team with specific domain expertise. We have extensive experience in the space industry and ESA. In particular, running IT Engineering Service contracts in environments that make use of the industry standards for what concerns IT Security (ISO 27001), IT Operations (ITIL v.4), and Project Management (Prince2 and Agile). We perfectly complement the project in terms of the required skills, experience, facilities, and capabilities required for its execution.
2024-05-09T17:19:01Z
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