#spacecollectivedefense
#spacecollectivedefense
Space systems are critical infrastructure. Satellites, ground stations, and mission networks are increasingly targeted, and the professionals responsible for securing them are operating without standardized credentials, shared frameworks, or a connected community built specifically for this domain.
D2 Team CORP was founded in 2020 to close that gap.
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Adversary framework
The Pentagon of Pain was developed so organizations can survive the METEORSTORM.
The Pentagon of Pain is an internal transformation across departments, mindsets, and priorities, ideally evolving toward a Space Collective Defense community where ISAC information sharing of threats, IOCs, IOAs, detection signatures, and resilience measures raises the bar for real‑world platform exploitation.
Select any node in the pentagon to explore the five areas of transformation.
Fly the METEORSTORM: a 3D visualization of the converged terrestrial, aquatic, aerial, orbital, and deep space environments the Pentagon of Pain prepares organizations to survive in.
Trusted Community for Space, Cybersecurity, Operations, and Resilience Platform Professionals.
We are a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit advancing micro-credentialing, education, and workforce development across space cybersecurity, operations, and mission resilience, built by practitioners, for practitioners. Think of us as a space career academy: a practical pathway that helps space, cybersecurity, operations, and resilience platform professionals build the credentials and connections this domain has long been missing.
Our focus is anchored in the Space ISAC. For six years we have been tightly integrated with the Space ISAC Watch Center, the Information Sharing Working Group, and the Signals and Space Cell, and that engagement sets our priorities: continuously keeping pace with the workforce development and tooling requirements that bring the most value to the community. What the community defends with is what we train with.
Our founder, William O. Ferguson, is a recognized voice in the global space community: conference speaker, technical editor and subgroup lead for the IEEE Space Systems Cybersecurity Working Group, and co-chair of the Space ISAC Extended Bill of Materials (xBOM) working group. D2 Team CORP reflects the same standards-body rigor and operational focus William brings to those roles, translated into workforce programs that prepare professionals and organizations to meet real-world challenges across secure space systems and cyber-informed operations.
We also drive U.S.-based hackathons focused on cyber operations and resilience in the space domain, and advance transatlantic cooperation through the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, a leading center for governance and institutional analysis. Via Indiana University's Berlin Gateway, the Ostrom Workshop bridges U.S. and European efforts to align standards, develop the workforce, and strengthen security in practice.
Engaging Space CIOs, CISOs, senior decision-makers, and commercial sponsors, we work to build a more secure and resilient space ecosystem, delivering hackathons, micro-credential training, and resilience engineering workshops that develop talent, strengthen operational capability, and drive lasting impact across the sector. We operate on micro-grants to fund non-profit workforce development and tooling engagements. For more details, contact William O. Ferguson.
Our work bridges the distance between strategic ambition and practical capability. If you are a CISO, security engineer, mission operator, or researcher working at the intersection of space and cyber, this community was built for you.
“A big thank you to William Ferguson and the ethicallyHackingspace (eHs) team for their outstanding work training Cyber Operators supporting U.S. Space Forces - Space (S4S). Their work is a testament to the importance of cybersecurity in both national security and the rapidly growing field of commercial space operations.”
“Thank you to William Ferguson for working diligently to provide such a great course that challenges you to think critically and comprehensively to enumerate and decompose the space platform through many elements and layers. The course is structured well and really allows you to get a hands on feel for and apply concepts critically to assess the threat and vulnerability for space platforms and space segments.”
“Space cybersecurity has one defining constraint: you can’t walk into a data center and reboot a satellite. Resilience has to be designed in, not patched on. Over a four-hour live session we worked a real space platform scenario through the five functions of the METEORSTORM framework, with Executive Order 14144, the NIS2 Directive and Space ISAC as the regulatory backdrop — a format built for people still running operations.”
“A big thank you to D2 Team CORP Cohort for delivering such a relevant forward-looking experience fusion of MISP taxonomy, [METEORSTORM] and artificial satellites with SPARTA and Maltego. Many thanks for your time and the wealth of experience shared.”
“Thanks for putting the class together, making great practical [workbooks] and pushing the critical thinking behind space-focused cyber defense. Learning hands-on with my recently acquired flatsat, combined with field experience shared by others in the community, has made me even more excited to keep learning.”
Posted publicly on LinkedIn by graduates of the SCOR Associate and SCOR Practitioner micro-credentials.
METEORSTORM gives watch floors, fusion cells, ISAC/ISAO members, and space mission cyber operators a common language to describe, fuse, and share threats across complex multi-domain systems, upstreamed as an official MISP taxonomy.
Building the workforce that builds AI: curriculum, faculty resources, and industry partnerships powering continuing-education AI programs across Georgia’s universities, and across the United States.
Join the eHs community as an individual or organizational member and help support hackathons, micro-credential certification sessions, resilience engineering workshops, and training that strengthen workforce readiness across the space sector.
Pay for a seat on CTIA v2, CEH v13, CSA TAISE, or eHs FS-SCP, or ask for a formal invoice payable by ACH or wire with purchase order support. Full Spectrum Space Cybersecurity (SCOR) is enrolled through the Center of Excellence instead.
EC-Council’s specialist-level threat intelligence program, delivered by our Authorized Training Center instructors. Open for full details, options, and cohort dates.
EC-Council’s flagship ethical hacking certification: 20 modules and more than 550 attack techniques, delivered across five weekends. Open for full details, options, and cohort dates.
The Cloud Security Alliance and Northeastern University credential for safe, secure, and responsible AI development and deployment. Open for full details, options, and cohort dates.
