India’s rapidly expanding space sector has received a major policy push with the release of new space cyber security guidelines aimed at strengthening protection across satellite and ground infrastructure. The framework, jointly developed by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) and SatCom Industry Association India (SIA-India), signals a growing recognition that cyber resilience is now as critical to space missions as launch capability itself.

The guidelines were unveiled during the DefSat Conference & Expo 2026 held in New Delhi, India, at a time when satellite communication systems are increasingly becoming the backbone of connectivity, navigation, defense operations, a...