PlexTrac ConceptsMITRE ATT&CK Framework

The MITRE ATT&CK® (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework is a knowledge base and well-known cybersecurity framework designed by the MITRE Corporation that outlines threat actors’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to help organizations defend against them.

Also known as ATT&CK Matrix, the MITRE ATT&CK® framework depicts TTPs from real-world attacks throughout the security lifecycle and provides insights to improve threat detection and response. 

The MITRE ATT&CK® framework acts as a comprehensive catalog of hacker techniques and establishes a foundation for modeling threats to create defensive and offensive security strategies. Benefits of the MITRE ATT&CK® framework include:

• Provides mapping, comparison, and analysis of cybersecurity threats 
• Gives guidance for better threat detection based on attacker’s known TTPs
• Enables attack simulation through red and purple team tactics

You can use the MITRE ATT&CK® framework for the following activities:

• Threat intelligence and analysis: Through ATT&CK mapping, organizations can identify potential threats and anticipate malicious actors’ intentions.
• Penetration testing and red teaming: Using ATT&CK techniques, red teams and pentesters can emulate attack scenarios and strengthen their defenses.
• Incident management and response: By analyzing threat actors’ TTPs, organizations can strengthen their incident response and quickly mitigate potential threats.  

PlexTrac helps you make the most of the ATT&CK framework by ingesting and aggregating data from all your sources so you can use it to strategize, assess, report, and provide a quick feedback loop for highly focused testing. Using PlexTrac with MITRE ATT&CK®, your team can better collaborate and analyze your environment from all angles.

Using PlexTrac Runbooks, you can conduct tabletop and purple teaming exercises, leverage 500+ pre-built procedures mapped to MITRE ATT&CK to quickly generate a runbook tailored to your test objectives, conduct true adversarial emulation by importing test plans from MITRE Engenuity, BlindSPOT, and SCYTHE, and demonstrate progress over time through iterative testing.

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