CSSSP Levels
About CSSSP
- The CSSSP® (Certified Space Systems Security Professional) qualification is one of the most respected certifications in the space security industry, demonstrating an advanced knowledge of space cybersecurity.
- Earning the CSSSP proves you have what it takes to effectively design, implement, and manage a cybersecurity space program.
- With a CSSSP, you validate your expertise and become a Space Cyber member, unlocking a broad array of exclusive resources, educational tools, seminars, conferences, and networking opportunities.
- CSSSP certification also explores factors that led to the space sector’s poor cybersecurity posture, various cyberattacks against space systems, and existing mitigation techniques employed by the sector.


CSSSP Level I: Specialist
Entry Level Operation, Analysts, Auditors and Policy Makers
Core Space Technologies and Baseline Skills
• Prevent, Defend, Maintain
• Space Security Essentials
• Space Asset Vulnerability Analysis

CSSSP Level II: Professional
Network Operation and Admin
Space Security Management
• Managing Technical Space Security OperationsSpace Security Management
• Space RMF and Critical ControlsSpace Security Management

CSSSP Level III: Expert
Forensic, Defensive/offensive Blue Team, Red Team:
• Blue Team:
• Space Monitoring and Detection
• Space Penetration Testing
• Space Incident Response and Threat Hunting
International Society of Space and Security Specialists (ISSSS/IS4) Commitment: Learn What It Takes To Secure the Space

CSSSP Domains (CBK) mapped to 8570 and NIST
- Space Cybersecurity Foundation
- Space Security Planning, Policy and Leadership
- Cybersecurity Threats in Space
- Space System Survivability and Cyber Warfare
- Cyber Warfare Capabilities in Space Missions
- Electronic and Cyber Warfare in Outer Space
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) Applied to Space Projects and Systems
- Space Threat and Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment
- Counter Communications System
- Counter-space Capabilities
- Types of Counter-space Technology
- Measures and effectiveness in Addressing Counter-space Capabilities.
- Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems and System of Systems (SoS)
- Space Security Architecture and Operation
- Space Network and System Reverse Engineering
- Space Embedded Systems Cybersecurity
- Space Cybersecurity Foundation
- Space Security Planning, Policy and Leadership
- Cybersecurity Threats in Space
- Space System Survivability and Cyber Warfare
- Cyber Warfare Capabilities in Space Missions
- Electronic and Cyber Warfare in Outer Space
- Risk Management Framework (RMF) Applied to Space Projects and Systems
- Space Threat and Vulnerability Analysis and Assessment
- Counter Communications System
- Counter-space Capabilities
- Types of Counter-space Technology
- Measures and effectiveness in Addressing Counter-space Capabilities.
- Cybersecurity Principles for Space Systems and System of Systems (SoS)
- Space Security Architecture and Operation
- Space Network and System Reverse Engineering
- Space Embedded Systems Cybersecurity
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- Certified Space Security Specialist Professional (CSSSP) certification is ideal for space and security practitioners, analysts, engineers, managers, and executives interested in proving their knowledge across space security best practices and principles.
- International Society of Space and Security Specialists (ISSSS/IS4) Commitment: Learn What It Takes To Secure the Space
- Our mission is to provide the information, tools and insights to help you grow and excel in your career as Certified Space Security Specialist Professional (CSSSP).
- CSSSP and other IS4 certification programs are impactful – for you as well as the future of nations that increasingly rely on the space industry for everything from communications to national security.