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).

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. While the framework assists organizations in better understanding, visualizing, anticipating, and defending against cyber-attack, its taxonomy of offense…

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 was released containing some User Interface (UI) enhancements and a significant amount of updated…

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,”…