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GR-AUTH-01

Unique Identifiers for Authentication Function (Ground)

Parent: GR

Description

The mission should provide the capability for each system to uniquely identify and authenticate organizational users and computing processes acting on behalf of organizational users.

Mapped SPARTA techniques

2 techniques

  • DE-0011Credentialed EvasionST0006
    addresses
    moderate

    Credentialed evasion depends on activity being attributable to a legitimate identity. Unique identification is what makes shared or generic accounts, the weakest case, unavailable to the adversary.

  • IA-0007Compromise Ground SystemST0003
    addresses
    moderate

    Unique identification and authentication of users and of processes acting on their behalf is the accountability precondition for everything else in the ground segment. It governs the compromise without interdicting the vector by which it is achieved.

Cite as SafeMode Space, nasa-bpg GR-AUTH-01.

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