If you take a look at the long list of breaches that make front-page news, you may think that a single framework can do a decent job of explaining the mechanisms. But that is not the case – some of the largest most famous breaches or vulnerabilities were web application related like the Equifax breach, Yahoo, First American, Facebook, and more. We can thank these breaches for endless credit monitoring – thanks folks! When we talked about MITRE ATT&CK, we discussed a very popular methodology that focused greatly on network and endpoint attacks. Web and application attack patters are missing, though, so how do we discuss a web or application threat? CAPEC helps us understand those web attack patterns and defend against them!
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