Space and Cyber Security

The Simons Foundation's Space and Cyber Security programme has been closed. Information on previous activities and related material can be found in the Resources section of this website and at the links below.

Space and Cyber Security Content

"Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy"

February 24, 2017

By Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Published by Room, The Space Journal
January 2017

Prospects for progress on space security diplomacy - Room, The Space Journal - January 2017.pdf

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“Cooperative Measures for International Cybersecurity”

See Paul Meyer's contribution to "Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security into the Toolbox of 21st Century Leaders," a joint report of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Centre for International Studies & Diplomacy at SOAS University of London.

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“Cooperative Measures for International Cybersecurity”

February 1, 2017

by Paul Meyer, Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Chapter 4 of "Reintroducing Disarmament and Cooperative Security to the Toolbox of 21st Century Leaders"
By Dan Plesch, Kevin Miletic, Tariq Rauf
Published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
January, 2017

Chapter 4: “Cooperative Measures for International Cybersecurity” by Paul Meyer

Space and Cyber Security

Space Security Index 2016 - Executive Summary

November 23, 2016

Space Security Index 2016 is the thirteenth annual report on developments related to safety, sustainability, and security in outer space, covering the period January-December 2015.

It is part of the broader Space Security Index (SSI) project, which aims to improve transparency on space activities and provide a common, comprehensive, objective knowledge base to support the development of national and international policies that contribute to the security and sustainability of outer space.

Space Security Index 2016 - Executive Summary

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Space Security Index 2016 - Full Report

November 23, 2016

Space Security Index 2016 is the thirteenth annual report on developments related to safety, sustainability, and security in outer space, covering the period January-December 2015.

Space Security Index 2016 - full report

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“Prospects for Progress on Space Security Diplomacy”

October 20, 2016

Presentation by Paul Meyer
Senior Fellow, The Simons Foundation
Space Security Index side event Tracking Space Security: Are We Ready to Go Live? held during the United Nations General Assembly First Committee
UN Headquarters
October 18, 2016

Prospects for Progress on Space Security Diplomacy - presentation by Paul Meyer, UNGA First Committee side event, October 18 2016.pdf

Space and Cyber Security

“Prospects for Progress on Space Security Diplomacy”

See the following for the text of Paul Meyer's presentation at the Space Security Index side event, "Tracking Space Security: Are We Ready to Go Live?", held during the United Nations General Assembly First Committee in New York.

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Space Security 2016—Sustaining the Momentum: the Current Status of Space Security

In 2002, The Simons Foundation and Project Ploughshares initiated, in partnership with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (now Global Affairs Canada), the first of what has become the Outer Space Security Conference Series organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The Simons Foundation continues to sponsor these conferences which are held to inform the UN Conference on Disarmament on issues of space security, the peaceful uses of outer space and the prevention of an arms race in outer space, and to provide stakeholders with an overview of current space security initiatives, an update on the implementation and adherence to existing instruments, and a view of the way ahead.

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