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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

The document discusses the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which provides a common language for describing cyber attack techniques. It organizes adversary behaviors into tactics and techniques. This helps security teams understand common attacks, detect threats in their own networks, and develop effective mitigation strategies. The framework benefits both red and blue teams by allowing them to test systems, analyze attack patterns, track incidents, and assess defensive capabilities. By providing a standardized system for sharing threat intelligence, ATT&CK helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and hunt cyber attacks.

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MITRE ATT&CK Framework

The document discusses the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which provides a common language for describing cyber attack techniques. It organizes adversary behaviors into tactics and techniques. This helps security teams understand common attacks, detect threats in their own networks, and develop effective mitigation strategies. The framework benefits both red and blue teams by allowing them to test systems, analyze attack patterns, track incidents, and assess defensive capabilities. By providing a standardized system for sharing threat intelligence, ATT&CK helps organizations prepare for, respond to, and hunt cyber attacks.

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The Nuts And Bolts Of

MITRE ATT&CK: Tactics


Initial Access Discovery
The cyber attacker is trying The cyber attacker is attempting to
to enter your network. make sense of your environment

Execution Lateral Movement


The attacker is trying to The attacker is attempting to travel
execute malicious code. through your environment.

Persistence Collection
The attacker is attempting The attacker is attempting to
to keep up their foothold. assemble information important to
their objective.

Privilege Escalation Command And Control


The cyber attacker is The cyber attacker is attempting to
attempting to increase more communicate with compromised
significant level authorizations. frameworks to control them.

Defense Evasion Exfiltration


The attacker is attempting to The attacker is attempting to steal
abstain from being identified. information.

Credential Access Impact


The attacker is attempting The cyber attacker is attempting to
to steal names and control, intrude, or obliterate your
passwords of accounts. frameworks and information.
How Organizations Can
Use MITRE ATT&CK?

01 02
Red Teaming SOC Maturity Assessment
ATT&CK can be utilized for planning, The Security Operations Center (SOC) and
reporting, and execution of the red occurrence reaction group can reference
group to maintain a strategic distance ATT&CK strategies that have been
from certain cautious measures that distinguished or revealed. It helps as one
might be set up inside a network. measurement to establish how effective a
SOC is at analyzing, detecting, and
responding to intrusions.

03 04
Assessing Defensive Cyber Security Strategy
Controls
Organizations can use ATT&CK to plan their
Organizations can use ATT&CK to strategy for cybersecurity. It can help you
assess tools, supervising, and build your defense to counter the known
mitigations of current defenses in the strategies and prepare your monitoring to
enterprise. recognize proof of ATT&CK procedures in
your network. By assessing the overall
05 strategy of cybersecurity, ATT&CK help you
fill any gaps that you might find.

Nature Of threats
Using ATT&CK, your team can
determine the nature of threats you are
facing. It also helps in mitigating the
threats. It can also be used as a
reference for the latest cybersecurity
threats.
01
How prepared are you for
security incidents?

02
Does your cyber defense
system work effectively?

03
Do you have a well-crafted
comprehensive incident
response plan?
If you are shaking your head “no,” you need a proactive analysis of attacks
and threats. And when our talk turns to the rigorous analysis of cyber theft
and defense, we cannot fail to mention the MITRE ATT&CK model that is
trusted by security professionals for organizing various sorts of threats or
adversarial behaviors and testing the efficiency of your security defense
system.

Apparently, MITRE ATT&CK is not just a red hot and trending ampersand-
infused acronym because it holds the attention of cybersecurity pros. So
what is it all about?

What Is MITRE ATT&CK?


MITRE, a government-funded organization, spun out of MIT, has worked
to strengthen cyber defenses for the past forty years. It is associated with
a lot of commercial and top-secret projects for many agencies.
It advocates for a threat-based defense solution with a balanced security
posture and leveraging cyber threat intelligence for quick adoption of a
cyber-attack responsive plan.
Cyber-attacks can pose a threat to your organization, and hence
comprehensive threat detection is important, which has three key
elements:
Understanding common adversary techniques
Detecting actual threats to your organization
Mitigating the attacks.
The Nuts and Bolts of
ATT&CK: Techniques
Adversarial techniques answer “how” an adversary attains a
tactical objective, and the course of action they take to get what
they seek.
Many techniques contain contextual information. It includes the
required permissions, the platform, the method commonly seen,
and how to detect the commands and the processes used in it.
When aligning a defensive program on ATT&CK, this can be
somewhat overwhelming as more than 291 techniques are
identified until today. And enlisting all of these is beyond the
scope of the article. Though, organizations can then leverage
this information from other hubs to ensure that their security
programs cover the most common techniques used to target the
peer organizations.
And while a security program that deals only with these
techniques will be feeble, a robust security program, like MITRE
security will make sure that these techniques are addressed as a
broader and more comprehensive approach to securing
organizational assets.
To detail out a few of the techniques and its associated tactics in
all industries for a brief exposure.
Techniques
01
Command-Line Interface:
TACTIC-Execution: Command-line interfaces provide a means
of interacting with computer systems and are a common feature
of many types of operating system platforms. For this execution,
command-line interfaces can interact locally or remotely via a
remote desktop application, reverse shell session, etc.

02
Process Discovery
TACTIC- Discovery: Cyber hackers can attempt to obtain
information about the execution of processes on a system. The
information obtained could be used to gain an understanding of
common software running on network systems. Opponents can
use information from process discovery during automated
discovery to shape follow-up behaviors, including if the adversary
completely hacks the target and/or attempts specific actions.
How Does ATT&CK Help In
Sharing Threat Intelligence?
The ATT&CK framework helps all technical and corporate
organizations, end-users, and governing institutions by sharing
threat intelligence. Apart from books that share threat
intelligence, ATT&CK provides a common language that is
standardized and globally accessible.
It is possible for analysts and defenders to work together with
data to compare and contrast cyber threat groups. It gives a
structured description of adversary tactics, techniques, and
procedures and the real-time behavior of hackers. And hence
we can draw significant comparisons amongst the adversary
groups.
Security analysts and defender both can structure their
information through ATT&CK matrices. The former can create
and share intelligence about the behavior of cyber attackers,
while the latter can structure gen for behavior used in detection
and mitigation by prioritizing risk.
Together, they create and share a threat-based awareness by
filling in the information voids or gaps that attackers were
exploiting. So the MITRE ATT&CK framework is beneficial in
rapid decision making and incident responsive plans for all
organizations.
Who Does The ATT&CK Framework Benefit?

ATT&CK can help both red teams and blue teams


in the same way. Red teams can pursue emulation
plans of MITRE’s adversaries to test their systems
and defenses by demonstrating off adversary
conduct characterized by ATT&CK.

Campaigns that are based around ATT&CK can


make it simpler and easier to interpret patterns,
track attacks, and rate the adequacy of tools for a
defense that is already in place.

Blue teams can use the ATT&CK system to show


signs of improvement, keeping an eye on what
enemies are doing, and organizing threats by
prioritizing them.
Conclusion:
Understand, Deploy, and Hunt cyber-attacks
with MITRE ATT&CK Framework
There is no silver bullet that can stop or dodge rapidly evolving
cyber-attacks. However, being prepared to respond to such
security incidents will limit damage and reduce recovery time
and costs.

MITRE ATT&CK evaluation is one of the most comprehensive


and conclusive resources of hacker tactics and techniques
available until date. Cyber professionals and security analysts
are increasingly concerned about cyberattack techniques in the
ATT&CK matrix, and they are building defense solutions and
software based on the MITRE ATT&CK navigator.

There is a demand for this fast-changing world to get more gen


about the use of the elements in penetrating targets’ defense.
The MITRE security model satisfies the needs as it can apply
technical and corporate organizations to leverage cyber threat
intelligence, which responds and adapts quickly to a cyber-
attack. To accomplish this, we need to encourage the promotion
of sharing cyber threat information and its effective tools. This
strategy thrives on a foundation of unrelenting innovation and
operational databases.

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