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In this post I end the tutorial series with some real world examples of how ATT&CK is being used from the most recent ATT&CKCON.
Note: this tutorial is written for MITRE ATT&CK version 11.0 (published on 2022-04-24). Some of the concepts discussed are not correct for other versions of ATT&CK.
MITRE’s ATT&CKcon (v3.0) returned to an in-person event at their headquarters in McLean, Virginia, a little over a month ago (March 29 and 30), and was in-part the inspiration for my last two posts; MITRE ATT&CK 101, and MITRE ATT&CK 102.
It is also a celebration of the recent release of version 11 of ATT&CK.
There was a great list of speakers, including many old colleagues, talking about a range of topics centered on how the ATT&CK framework is leveraged.
You can watch all the talks on-demand here (sign up required). Here are four of my favourites.
Knowledge for the Masses: Storytelling with ATT&CK!
By Ismael Valenzuela and Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez
Creating and sharing compelling stories about cyber threats (with the help of ATT&CK) is a powerful way for raising awareness to enable action against cyber threats.
In this talk Ismael and Jose share their experiences leveraging ATT&CK to disseminate threat knowledge to different audiences by captivating them with a story (Software Development teams, Managers, Threat detection engineers, etc.).
Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK: Enhancing Operations Through the Tracking of Interactive Intrusion Campaigns
By Jason Wood and Justin Swisher
Security teams need tools and processes that allow the mapping of hands-on adversary tradecraft.
Jason and Justin show how their threat hunting team uses MITRE ATT&CK to understand and categorise adversary activity over time.
It’s Just a Jump to the Left (of Boom): Prioritizing Detection Implementation with Intelligence and ATT&CK
By Lindsay Kaye and Scott Small
A wealth of open-sourced, ATT&CK-mapped, detections and intelligence now exists for security teams.
Lindsay and Scott show how real-world defensive strategies can be strengthened by encompassing a full-spectrum view of this data to ensure that detection efforts are prioritised and focused effectively (with the help of ATT&CK).
Threat Modelling: It’s Not Just for Developers
By Tim Wadhwa-Brown
Most intel teams take public information about threat actors, vulnerabilities, and incidents (and use them to build better defenses).
Tim takes the audience through 3 real world examples where he leveraged such data and how he used ATT&CK information (particularly data sources) to achieve a successful outcome.
CONGRATULATIONS!
You have made it to the end of this short course.
Whilst there is a little more to ATT&CK than covered in these posts, you now have enough to start putting the framework to work, whether you are a red, blue, or purple teamer.
Here are some useful links to bookmark following this course, some I have covered, some I have not, that you I find useful when working with MITRE ATT&CK:
- The MITRE ATT&CK website is very useful for looking up Objects in the framework
- MITRE recently release a new Chrome browser extension. ATT&CK Powered Suit, for Object lookups which saves you jumping between tabs
- Use the Navigator is great for modelling ATT&CK Tactics and Techniques
- TRAM for automation of assigning ATT&CK to raw intelligence
- And the Workbench for extending ATT&CK:
- A less known product from MITRE is ATT&CK Flow, designed to help defenders easily understand how attackers compose and execute on ATT&CK techniques
- MITRE are also running a pilot of a new initiative called ATT&CK Sightings. ATT&CK Sightings aims to be a central collection of reported sightings of Techniques from the ATT&CK community
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