Space engineering teams excel at designing systems that withstand radiation, thermal stress, and hardware degradation. However, modern space missions must also address intentional cybersecurity threats such as command spoofing, replay attacks, and malware injection. Unlike traditional failures, these adversarial cyber-faults exploit legitimate communication channels and system functionality, creating risks that cannot be adequately addressed through conventional safety analyses alone.

In this webinar, we will demonstrate how Model-Based Design can help space organizations identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks throughout the mission lifecycle. Using MATLAB and Simulink, attendees will learn how Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) activities can be integrated directly into engineering workflows to support compliance with ESA and ECSS cybersecurity requirements.

A special focus will be placed on automated, model-based verification workflows. Through live demonstrations, participants will see how Simulink Fault Analyzer can generate cyber-fault scenarios, evaluate their impact on mission-critical functions, and support the creation of traceable test cases that verify system resilience. By shifting cybersecurity activities earlier into development, engineering teams can improve software robustness while reducing certification and validation effort.

Why attend?

This webinar provides a practical introduction to cybersecurity engineering for space systems using Model-Based Design. Participants will learn how to perform Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) within engineering models, automate the generation of fault scenarios and verification tests, and establish traceable workflows that support ECSS certification activities. The session will demonstrate how model-based approaches help engineers prove that flight software and control systems can maintain safe operational behavior even when subjected to intentional cyber-attacks.

Agenda

• Introduction to security challenges in modern space systems
• Cybersecurity requirements in the space industry and ECSS standards
• Live demonstration: Threat Analysis and Risk Assessment (TARA) using Simulink Fault Analyzer
• Live demonstration: Creating tests for newly generated cyber-fault scenarios
• Building traceable verification workflows for certification activities
• Key takeaways
• Q&A session

Who should attend?

This webinar is intended for professionals involved in the development, operation, verification, and certification of space systems, including system engineers, flight software engineers, mission assurance managers, cybersecurity architects, security officers, simulation engineers, software test engineers, project managers, certification specialists, and Model-Based Design practitioners working on satellites, rovers, high-altitude platforms, and ground segment systems.

Featured products

All products mentioned in this webinar are developed by MathWorks.

• Simulink Fault Analyzer
• Requirements Toolbox
• Simulink Test
• MATLAB