SPARTA | New Space Economy

Infographic explaining a cybersecurity framework that organizes adversary behavior into tactics, techniques, and sub-techniques, then links them to countermeasures, requirements, and tools; it lists nine tactics and gives two example paths.

HOW TO READ THE SPARTA MATRIX

Infographic summarizing nine adversary behaviors against space systems and explaining how the framework supports detection, countermeasures, and system requirements.

SPARTA’S NINE CYBER ATTACK TACTICS

Taxonomy infographic explaining nine categories of cyber threats to space systems, the threat examples in each category, their potential effects on missions, and a four-step approach to risk identification, comparison, communication, and mitigation.

THE COMPLETE TAXONOMY OF SPACE CYBER THREATS

Infographic explaining how space adversary tactics are assessed for mission risk, addressed with countermeasures, mapped to NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls, converted into technical or procedural requirements, and verified.

FROM SPACE THREAT TO ENGINEERING REQUIREMENT

Infographic explains an unclassified space-attack analysis framework, including nine tactics, 87 techniques, a four-step knowledge process, intended professional users, and benefits such as common terminology and defensive planning.

WHAT IS SPARTA?

Infographic showing cyberattack pathways and exposure areas across user, ground, link, and space mission segments and their connected suppliers, services, and operations.

THE SPACE SYSTEM CYBER ATTACK SURFACE

Infographic explaining six connected protection areas for space missions and listing controls for governance, users, ground operations, communications, spacecraft, mission data, and flight software.

DEFENSE-IN-DEPTH FOR SPACE SYSTEMS

Infographic summarizing cybersecurity practices for space missions, including threat modeling, system segmentation, authentication, encrypted communications, key management, software assurance, monitoring, recovery, a six-step workflow, resilience controls, and common security weaknesses.

HOW TO DESIGN A CYBER-RESILIENT SPACE SYSTEM

Infographic describes cybersecurity across the user, ground, link, and space segments of a space system, including their functions and examples. It also lists lifecycle support activities, cyber-relevant spacecraft functions, security questions, and principles such as defense in depth, least privilege, secure by design, and continuous assurance.

ANATOMY OF A SPACE SYSTEM FROM A CYBERSECURITY PERSPECTIVE

Infographic explains a SPARTA framework for space-system cyber threats, listing nine adversary tactics from reconnaissance and resource development to initial access, execution, persistence, defense evasion, lateral movement, exfiltration, and impact, with examples and a note that attacks are adaptive rather than linear.

THE SPACE CYBER ATTACK LIFECYCLE