{"id":325585,"date":"2025-12-02T06:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:54:08","slug":"spire-to-build-eight-satellites-for-deloittes-on-orbit-cybersecurity-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325585\/","title":{"rendered":"Spire to build eight satellites for Deloitte\u2019s on-orbit cybersecurity program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Spire Global has secured a contract from Deloitte to design, build and operate eight satellites that will support the consulting firm\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/deloittes-payloads-will-test-whether-satellites-can-defend-themselves\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">push into on-orbit cybersecurity<\/a>, the companies said Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Spire Global, a space-based data and satellite services company, will supply the spacecraft for Deloitte\u2019s planned constellation carrying Silent Shield, an intrusion-detection payload built to spot cyber threats targeting satellites. The satellites will also host advanced radio-frequency and geolocation payloads to support Deloitte\u2019s commercial and government clients.<\/p>\n<p>The deal expands a partnership that began earlier this year, when Deloitte launched Deloitte-1 on SpaceX\u2019s Transporter-13 rideshare mission. Spire worked with Deloitte to validate Silent Shield on that spacecraft, which serves as the first node in what Deloitte aims to grow into a nine-satellite cyber defense testbed in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpire\u2019s integrated technology gives us a powerful and relevant platform to engineer, test, validate and refine our on-orbit cyber solutions,\u201d Brett Loubert, leader of Deloitte\u2019s U.S. Space practice, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite cyber defense<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte is betting that real cybersecurity testing for space systems requires operating in orbit, not just in ground stations. A widening set of cyber risks threaten satellites as they become more networked and more numerous.<\/p>\n<p>Silent Shield includes two versions of Deloitte\u2019s intrusion-detection system: A hardware payload, flying on Deloitte-1 and planned for the final satellites in the series, operates out-of-band and only ingests telemetry. By design, it cannot send commands to the spacecraft, limiting the chance that a compromised payload could be used as a bridge to attack the satellite itself.<\/p>\n<p>And a \u201cmassless\u201d software-only payload is intended for legacy satellites or platforms that cannot accept new hardware. The software package can run intermittently to meet the power constraints typical of older spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Deloitte said the eight new satellites will launch in clusters over the next 18 months, forming a constellation to test cyber defenses, generate operational data and model how attacks could move laterally across multiple spacecraft \u2014 an emerging concern as more satellite networks rely on inter-satellite links and shared ground architectures.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also using data from Deloitte-1 to train AI models for future autonomous cyber responses in orbit, a capability that industry executives say will become more important as spacecraft grow more software-defined.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Spire Global has secured a contract from Deloitte to design, build and operate eight satellites that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[7257,4459,79,722,193,121313],"class_list":["post-325585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-cybersecurity","tag-deloitte","tag-science","tag-sn","tag-space","tag-spire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}