Osmium Solutions Spain

OSMIUM is a cybersecurity company based in Spain and Italy, with the mission of safeguarding the aerospace industry’s digital transformation and enabling the secure use of digitalization, connectivity, and SW-based spacecraft and aircraft to guarantee the safety, integrity, and resilience of its customer’s missions and operations.

Space networking

• R&D of networking technologies in constrained environments
• Requirements and design specification of intra- and inter-spacecraft communications and operations protocols
• SW and support tools development for satellite network’s protocols and algorithms
• Simulation, emulation and prototyping of space networks and assessment of their performance

Cybersecurity engineering for space

• Threat analysis and risk assessment (TARA) of complex space systems
• Security requirements specification to fulfil programme cybersecurity objectives
• Vulnerability analysis to find security weaknesses of space vehicle or ground systems
• Penetration testing of specific components or entire small satellite vehicle systems

Secure systems design & implementation

• Secure boot and OTA updates for security throughout the entire lifetime of the system
• Security measures for ground-space and space-space communication protocols
• Fully customized and secure Linux distro for small satellites (e.g. for payload handling)
• Hardening of real-time OS (e.g. RTEMS and FreeRTOS)

Cybersecurity engineering for aviation

• Threat and risk assessment (TARA) of aviation systems in compliance with EUROCAE ED-202 & RTCA DO-326 series standards
• Aircraft and systems security risk assessments
• Identification of security controls based on risk assessments’ findings
• Definition of methodologies, procedures, and processes to perform the cybersecurity-related activities