NASA Best Practices Guide for Mission Cybersecurity
MI-INTG-01

Communications Survivability Function

Parent: MI

Description

The mission should be able to recover from communications jamming and spoofing attempts.

Mapped SPARTA techniques

7 techniques

  • DE-0002Disrupt or Deceive DownlinkST0006
    addresses
    moderate

    Disrupting or deceiving the downlink is a communications-availability attack the survivability obligation speaks to, but the parent technique also covers inhibiting ground and spacecraft functionality by non-RF means, which link recovery does not reach.

  • DE-0002.02Jam Link SignalST0006
    mitigates
    high

    Jamming the link to suppress the downlink is a communications-jamming attempt in the practice's own terms; a mission that can recover the link defeats the evasion the technique buys.

  • EX-0013FloodingST0004
    addresses
    moderate

    Flooding the command path is a communications-availability attack, and a mission designed to recover link service recovers from it. The practice names jamming and spoofing rather than flooding, so the relevance is real but the excerpt does not reach the technique's mechanism directly.

  • EX-0014SpoofingST0004
    addresses
    moderate

    The practice names spoofing, but its subject is the communications link, whereas the parent spoofing technique spans forged sensor measurements, internal bus messages, and navigation signals as well. The dominant scope sits outside the practice, so this is addresses rather than mitigates.

  • EX-0016JammingST0004
    addresses
    moderate

    Deliberately typed down from the mitigates carried by its uplink and downlink sub-techniques. The parent spans PNT jamming as well, and the BPG splits PNT survivability into a separate practice (MI-INTG-02), so this practice covers most but not all of the parent's scope. Under the universal-strict standard partial scope coverage is addresses.

  • EX-0016.01Uplink JammingST0004
    mitigates
    high

    The practice requires the mission to be able to recover from communications jamming, and uplink jamming is that case exactly: the defining vector (RF interference denying the command path) and the whole of the technique's scope fall inside the practice's stated obligation. This is one of the few pairings in the corpus where the source text names the technique's own mechanism rather than a generalisation of it.

  • EX-0016.02Downlink JammingST0004
    mitigates
    high

    Downlink jamming denies the telemetry path, and the practice's survivability obligation covers the communications link in both directions. Defining vector and dominant scope are both inside the practice.

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