Publication: enisa-stl-2025-03 Space Threat Landscape
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Mapped SPARTA techniques
24 techniques
Communications security ensures secure protocols persist regardless of cryptographic-mode selectors, denying the desynchronisation attack.
Communications security with imitative/manipulative deception detection identifies and rejects masqueraded transmissions based on signal parameters.
Communications security with detection of imitative deception flags and rejects replayed wireless transmissions.
Communications security with secure-protocol mandates and crypto-bypass prevention directly defeats algorithm-fallback and null-cipher manipulation.
Communications security is relevant to the communications-protection domain, but content confidentiality/integrity does not actively defeat the traffic-flow analysis EXF-0002.03 performs.
Communications security with confidentiality preservation during transmission directly defeats interception of payload products and command/ack exchanges.
Communications security on uplinks (including encryption to prevent eavesdropping of telecommands) directly defeats uplink-exfiltration content recovery.
Communications security maintains downlink confidentiality during preparation for transmission and reception, defeating the recording-and-decode workflow EXF-0003.02 relies on.
Communications security is relevant to the secondary-link domain EXF-0004 abuses, but the prevent-unauthorized-disclosure (confidentiality) excerpt does not actively prevent covert content embedding in those channels, which needs authentication and integrity, so addresses rather than mitigates.
Communications security explicitly covers Inter-Satellite Links: secure protocols on crosslinks defeat traffic injected from a compromised neighbor.
Communications security on backup TT&C chains preserves the same secure-protocol posture, denying the differential exploitation IA-0004 relies on.
Communications security on the backup receiver path preserves the same encryption and authentication posture, denying the differential-acceptance window IA-0004.02 relies on.
Communications security with imitative-deception rejection identifies and rejects deliberate attempts to imitate authorised transmissions.
Communications security with imitative-deception detection on RF signal parameters surfaces transmissions that mimic the operator's emissions.
Communications security on crosslink-compatible signals defeats a rogue spacecraft attempting to advertise services as a trusted neighbor.
Communications security with confidentiality preservation during transmission directly defeats interception of mission-critical data on the downlink path.
Communications security on inter-satellite links defeats traffic from a compromised neighbor attempting to reach gateway functions on adjacent vehicles.
Communications security with strong cryptographic mechanisms denies adversary-built equipment the ability to issue accepted commands, but RD-0001.01's defining act is assembling the ground stack, which the control does not interdict; passive collection and active probing remain available. The control blunts downstream use rather than the defining vector, so the relationship is addresses.
Communications security with strong cryptographic mechanisms renders rented commercial ground-station services ineffective for hostile commanding without mission keys, but RD-0001.02's defining act is renting station access, which the control does not interdict; the rented station retains collection utility. The control blunts downstream commanding rather than the defining vector, so the relationship is addresses.
Communications security mandates secure protocols and crypto-bypass prevention that defeat the link reconnaissance REC-0003 performs.
Communications security mandates secure command protocols with strong cryptographic mechanisms that limit what reconnaissance of telecommand framing can yield.
Communications security with strong cryptographic mechanisms directly defeats RF and packet eavesdropping by preventing unauthorized disclosure during transmission.
Communications Security governs uplink communications and is relevant to REC-0005.01 domain, but the cited excerpt concerns identifying and rejecting imitative or manipulative deception and does not actively counter passive uplink interception, so addresses rather than mitigates.
Communications security with confidentiality preservation during transmission directly defeats downlink intercept of housekeeping telemetry and payload data.