MIT02 (circuit breakers) is the most broadly applicable control — it appears as a primary mitigation for 4 of the 6 failure patterns. It is the architectural equivalent of a pressure relief valve: when failure pressure builds up in one part of the system, the circuit opens and prevents it from spreading.

MIT01 (output validation) and MIT06 (rate limiting + confirmation) together cover both ends of the cascade — detection at the source and blast radius limitation at the terminal. Patterns 1 and 6 (silent propagation and adversarial stepping stone) have no circuit breaker as a primary control because the malicious/bad data isn't an availability failure — it's a content failure. Only content validation (MIT01) and action gating (MIT06) directly address content-based cascades.

Pattern 4 (resource exhaustion) requires the deepest set of controls: bulkhead isolation, circuit breaking, graceful degradation, exponential backoff with jitter, and chaos testing — all five are primary controls. Resource exhaustion cascades have the most self-reinforcing dynamics, requiring the most layered defense.