Space Cybersecurity

The SPARTA framework offers space professionals a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. v1.3 delivers significant updates. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Brad Roeher; Updated on May 9, 2023, with v1.3.1 A Brief History of SPARTA Releases: SPARTA version 1.0 was released on October 19th, 2022, during the Value of Space Summit hosted by the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC).

SPARTA’s mission is to ensure space system engineers are informed about countermeasures available to aid in mitigation. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Tim Dafoe Educating the space community on spacecraft tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) is one goal of SPARTA, but equally important is ensuring space system engineers are informed about countermeasures available to aid in mitigation. While TTPs are important to understand a threat actor’s “why” and “how,”…

SPARTA, released in October 2022, provides space professionals with a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. v1.2 delivers some significant updates. — Authors: Brandon Bailey, Brad Roeher SPARTA version 1.0 was released on October 19th, 2022 during the Value of Space Summit hosted by the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC). Subsequently, on October 28th, 2022, v1.1 …

The SPARTA framework offers space professionals a taxonomy of potential cyber threats to spacecraft and space missions. The PCSpooF academic research is mapped to the framework in an illustrative use case. — Authors: Adam Byerly, Gregory Falco, Brandon Bailey, Tim Dafoe, Brad Roeher Why SPARTA was created In 2013, MITRE created the ATT&CK framework to document common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by adversaries against enterprise networks. …

I encountered these mesmerising and glamorous images taken by James Webb Telescope recently. I am sure most of you did too. Humans had a chance to look at space with that much detail for the first time in history. There is no word to describe the feelings that emerged when…

Cyber threats pose a significant and complex challenge due to the absence of warning, the speed of an attack by an adversary, the difficulty of attribution, and the complexities associated with carrying out a proportionate response. — ­­­­­­­Space systems face many well-known types of attack, including orbital, kinetic, and electronic warfare, but are also vulnerable to forms of cyber threat. …

Experts are harnessing the peculiar features of quantum physics to establish secure communications with orbiting spacecraft. — Space-based technologies have rapidly transformed the modern world yet the systems themselves are surprisingly vulnerable. As more entrants to the space enterprise emerge, new threats and risks must be accounted for to ensure the infrastructure can respond to any potential threats.