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MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae stands for MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK). The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a curated knowledge base and model for cyber adversary behavior, reflecting the various phases of an adversary’s attack lifecycle and the platforms they are known to target. The tactics and techniques abstraction in the model provides a common taxonomy of individual adversary actions understood by both offensive and defensive sides of cybersecurity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It also provides an appropriate level of categorization for adversary action and specific ways of defending against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The behavioral model presented by ATT&CK contains the following core components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
MITRE ATT&CK was created in 2013 in answer to the research question “How well are we doing at detecting documented adversary behavior?” It is a result of MITRE’s Fort Meade Experiment (FMX) where researchers emulated both adversary and defender behavior to improve post-compromise detection of threats through telemetry sensing and behavioral analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MITRE ATT&CK (pronounced “miter attack”) framework is a free, globally accessible framework that provides comprehensive and up-to-date cyber threat information to organizations looking to strengthen their cybersecurity strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Businesses can use the framework\u00a0to evaluate and test their security methods, and cybersecurity vendors can use it to vet their products and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The framework evaluation criteria are specific to each organization using it and focus on the details of a specific cybersecurity approach. The results of the evaluations are, therefore, noncompetitive; organizations cannot use results to gain a business advantage over other organizations that have been evaluated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The framework and knowledge base were created and curated by Mitre, a not-for-profit security research organization. The knowledge base is an ongoing project. It contains analyses based on real-world events that organizations can reference when developing threat models and methodologies, and it grows as organizations contribute their knowledge of cyber threats to the knowledge base. The knowledge base, in turn, informs the framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mitre aims to foster a stronger overall cybersecurity community with these free offerings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Successful and\u00a0comprehensive threat detection\u00a0requires understanding common adversary techniques. This includes the ones that may especially pose a threat to your organization, and how to detect and mitigate these attacks. However, the\u00a0volume and breadth of attack tactics\u00a0make it nearly impossible for any single organization to monitor every single attack type. This is without taking into account cataloging and translating those findings in a constructive way to anyone outside of their organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was why MITRE developed the ATT&CK framework. ATT&CK, which is an acronym for Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge, is a knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques. These techniques are indexed and broken down into detail the exact steps and methods that hackers use, making it easy for teams to understand the actions that may be used against a particular platform. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To go a step further, MITRE also incorporates\u00a0cyber-threat intelligence\u00a0documenting adversary group behavior profiles to document which attack groups use which techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ATT&CK matrix structure is similar to a periodic table, with column headers outlining phases in the attack chain (from Initial Access all the way to Impact). The rows below them detail specific techniques. Framework users can further explore any of the techniques to learn more about the tactics, platforms exploited, example procedures, mitigation, and detections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MITRE ATT&CK matrix contains a set of techniques used by adversaries to accomplish a specific objective. Those objectives are categorized as tactics in the ATT&CK Matrix. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The objectives are presented linearly from the point of reconnaissance to the final goal of exfiltration or “impact”. Looking at the broadest version of ATT&CK for Enterprise, which includes Windows, macOS, Linux, PRE, Azure AD, Office 365, Google Workspace, SaaS, IaaS, Network, and Containers, the following adversary tactics are categorized:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within each tactic of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, there are adversary techniques, which describe the actual activity carried out by the adversary. Some techniques have sub-techniques that explain how an adversary carries out a specific technique in greater detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n