NASA Best Practices Guide for Mission Cybersecurity
GR-MALW-01

Malware Protection Function (Ground)

Parent: GR

Description

• Mission operated systems should employ malicious code protection mechanisms: o at information system entry and exit points o on system components o capable of performing real-time scans of files from external sources on endpoints devices and at network entry/exit points as the files are downloaded, opened, or executed in accordance with organizational security policy to detect and eradicate mali

Mapped SPARTA techniques

3 techniques

  • EX-0010Malicious CodeST0004
    mitigates
    moderate

    Malicious code protection at system entry and exit points and on system components is the ground-segment interdiction of malicious code, complementary to MI-MALW-01's on-board update-validation gate.

  • EX-0010.01RansomwareST0004
    mitigates
    moderate

    Ransomware reaching mission-operated ground systems is caught at the entry points the practice covers.

  • EX-0010.02Wiper MalwareST0004
    mitigates
    moderate

    Wiper malware is interdicted by the same entry-point and component protections.

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

Built 2026-07-25 from 216 techniques, 334 regulation articles, 125 ENISA controls, 2,610 framework controls, and 90 countermeasures.