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Check yourself before you wreck yourself: Emulate your foes easily with ATT&CK

The offensive security industry is hopping – awesome folks out there can help you find your security flaws! Companies today are leveraging security assessments, audits, penetration tests and red team assessments. These evaluations help to validate coverage within the architecture of a threat model. As your organization matures you will focus more on an expected adversary’s behavior than on generic atomic events. It just so happens MITRE’s ATT&CK is a catalogue of those atomic techniques!

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Uncover hidden enemies with ATT&CK Detection and Analytics

As we saw in our last post, Threat Intelligence is a huge focus. But what good does intelligence do if we never act on it? If your organization is leveraging a SIEM or XDR, or using tools that allow for custom detection content to be added, then you use detection and analytics. ATT&CK includes data on detection and mitigation techniques, which presents you with sound guidance on where to start detecting each technique’s use in your environments. These underappreciated features of the ATT&CK database are fantastic in guiding all manner of blue team operators, and they provide a jump start to achieving greater security. Detection (or what they now call Data sources) and Mitigations give us homework. Before we can act, we must see – so let’s see how ATT&CK can help with Detection.

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Thwart APTs and unveil secrets with ATT&CK’s Threat Intelligence

As you saw in the previous post, ATT&CK is loaded with potential to hit a lot of use cases. Most CTI organizations are at least considering the use of ATT&CK to structure their reports and feeds. It provides analysts with a common language and structure. ATT&CK fosters better collaboration and easier consumption of the findings for all, including you and your tools.

old-school picture of an OSS spy with his radio in the mountains
I’ve gotta get my inputs back to HQ before they publish ATT&CK v15!
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Worry less and know your enemy with MITRE ATT&CK!

AI depiction of barbarians waiting at the fiery gates of something ominous
Our last penetration test was a little too obvious – maybe we should specify “don’t burn it all down”?

If you’ve known me for a while, you know I love talking about MITRE’s ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge). I probably have an unhealthy addiction to discussing it, but I do think it is helpful to understand why it is both cool and has limits. So let’s discuss!

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What is causing Mike’s Indigestion now? Ransomware is sooo last year (3 Nov 2023)

Good morning folks! I have some updates on the threat side of things that I think are interesting and might help in conversations with your friends and colleagues:

Ugh, Ransomware. Again.

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