Origin you can prove
Every asset, transaction, and event carries cryptographic lineage. Tamper-evident receipts replace trust assumptions with verifiable records.
Security Overview
Secure by design. Audited by default.
Space infrastructure is mission-critical infrastructure. Security cannot be a wrapper — it has to live in the protocol, the data model, and the operating posture. This is the umbrella view of how we approach it.
Posture
Three load-bearing pillars.
Every layer of the stack is engineered against three irreducible requirements: provable origin, enforceable confidentiality, and verifiable governance.
Confidentiality by construction
Modern cryptographic primitives — signing, encryption, key custody, post-quantum readiness — applied at the protocol layer, not retrofitted at the edge.
Policy as enforceable code
Access control, export gates, residency rules, and audit obligations expressed as machine-checkable policy, not paperwork.
Threat Surface
The attack surface is wider than the spacecraft.
Digital space infrastructure spans four interdependent segments — ground, link, space, and user. Compromise in any one segment can cascade. Treating them as a single security domain is the only doctrinally sound posture.
We design with this segmentation in mind: protocol-level provenance survives cross-segment hand-offs, cryptographic identity is consistent end-to-end, and audit evidence is preserved across system boundaries.
Principles
Five non-negotiable security principles.
01
Least privilege, always
Identity is scoped, time-bounded, and attestable. Every action is authorized against an explicit policy — never against a posture of implicit trust.
02
Tamper-evident by default
State changes leave signed, ordered, replayable evidence. Forensic reconstruction and audit are first-class outcomes, not afterthoughts.
03
Compartmentation across segments
Ground, link, space, and user domains are isolated by design. Cross-domain flows pass through declared, monitored, policy-enforced gates.
04
Sovereign deployment options
On-premise, sovereign-cloud, and air-gapped deployment paths are part of the product surface — not a custom-engineering exception.
05
Post-quantum forward
Cryptographic agility is built in. Algorithm rotation and post-quantum migration are operational events, not architectural rewrites.
Security is not a product feature. It is a property of the system. If it is not present at the protocol layer, it will not survive contact with operations.
Doctrinal Alignment
Standards-native, multi-jurisdiction aware.
We design against the frameworks that govern allied space and critical infrastructure — not as a compliance checklist, but as the operating ontology.
USSF, NATO, NASA, ESA
Alignment with allied space command doctrine, agency standards, and the requirements that govern mission-grade operations across coalition partners.
NIST, MITRE, ISO
Engineered against NIST 800-series controls, MITRE knowledge bases, and ISO/IEC 27001 — with crosswalk mappings to reduce integration risk for customers.
ITAR · EAR · EU dual-use
Export-control awareness is built into the engagement model. Classification lanes and information gating are explicit, not assumed.
NIS2 · DORA · AI Act
European regulatory regimes for critical infrastructure, digital operational resilience, and high-risk AI are treated as first-class design inputs.
CCSDS · ECSS · STAC
Space systems engineering standards and open geospatial conventions are honored where they reduce friction and increase interoperability.
Evidence over assertion
Audit-oriented by design — signed artifacts, immutable logs, and policy-version trails make claims verifiable rather than declarative.
Engage
Two doctrinal lenses on the same posture.
The security overview is the umbrella. The cyber and defense pages go deeper on the threat model and the doctrinal alignment that informs our engagement with allied operators.