EU Space ISAC meeting strengthens shared cyber resilience

In an era of escalating geopolitical and cyber risks, safeguarding Europe's orbital assets requires unprecedented collaboration.

The recent general meeting of the EU Space Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EU Space ISAC) in Prague offered public and private stakeholders a direct answer to this challenge: a unified platform for actionable threat intelligence. Participants gained access to critical peer-to-peer vulnerability insights, established real-time early warning pathways and actively shaped the newly unveiled 2026-2027 roadmap.

Strengthening strategic cooperation

To fortify European space security, the EU Space Information Sharing and Analysis Centre (EU Space ISAC) brought together 50 members in mid-June at EUSPA headquarters in Prague, Czechia. The high-level gathering focused on a critical mandate: strengthening cooperation, enhancing cybersecurity resilience and advancing the sector's strategic priorities.

Participants reviewed progress reports from various working groups before diving into discussions on the 2026-2027 roadmap and its strategic importance for the future direction of EU Space ISAC.

Collaboration in action

Attendees built connections with industry peers and public partners to foster collaborative solutions to common challenges affecting the European space sector. To translate these concepts into practice, attendees participated in a group exercise and gained valuable insights from a briefing on the operational experiences of the Aviation ISAC.

As a collaborative platform for members and specialised working groups, the meeting invited participants to tackle security challenges and discuss future activities.

Adding to the technical presentations from space and security actors, the meeting featured guest speaker Clémence Poirier, senior cyber-defence researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She provided an authoritative external perspective on the evolving global cyber threat landscape.

Rear Admiral S. Goinère, Deputy Commander French Space Command, delivered a presentation on the threats facing space capabilities from a defence perspective reminding how they are now a strategic and operational reality, making space sovereignty, technological resilience and the protection of space assets critical priorities for national security.

The event also offered participants invaluable networking and benchmarking opportunities. A major takeaway for members is the optimisation of early warning systems, which will now provide timelier alerts on security risks, enabling faster and more effective responses.

Shaping the future of EU Space ISAC

The meeting marked an important governance shift with the transfer of the EU Space custodianship to industry representatives, establishing the EU Space ISAC as a legal entity, providing the institutional foundation for autonomous and durable operations.

The EU Space ISAC Declaration was also presented with a call for closer cooperation between industry and EU institutions to build a secure space sector: a strong, diverse and active ISAC being essential to continue to consolidate its credible and impactful membership, ensuring it reflects the full breadth of the EU space sector, bringing together primes and SMEs, established operators and New Space actors, across both upstream and downstream segments.

Positioning EU Space ISAC as a hub for strategic dialogue and collaborative incident response, all European space actors were invited to work together to ensure space remains a pillar of Europe's security, sovereignty and prosperity.

EUSPA will therefore remain actively engaged, particularly within the working groups, to ensure the development of high-value deliverables that can be effectively shared both within the ISAC and with external stakeholders.

About EU Space ISAC

EU Space ISAC is a collaborative network of EU companies dedicated to enhancing security across the space sector. It promotes information sharing and cooperation among industry, research organisations and public entities to proactively prevent, address and mitigate security-related challenges and cyber threats. Through coordinated action and knowledge exchange, EU Space ISAC supports the resilience and security of Europe's space ecosystem.

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