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Put Your Money Where Your Adversaries Are: Exploited Vulnerabilities

By Tiffany Bergeron, Mike Cunningham, Suneel Sundar

February 13, 2025

Historically, vulnerability management and threat management have been separate disciplines, but in a risk-focused world, they need to be brought together.

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Stacked Defense from the Hardware Up

By Tiffany Bergeron

January 3, 2025

The Security Stack Mappings – Hardware-Enabled Defense project demonstrates full stack threat-informed defense, from the hardware board to the software bytes.

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Summiting the Pyramid: Bring the Pain with Robust and Accurate Detection

By Michaela Adams, Roman Daszczyszak, Steve Luke

December 16, 2024

Summiting the Pyramid (STP) provides a methodology to score analytics against the pyramid of pain, helping defenders create more robust detections against adversary behavior.

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The Best Defense is a Security Capability Mapped to ATT&CK

By Tiffany Bergeron

December 13, 2024

The Security Stack Mappings – Hardware-Enabled Defense project demonstrates full stack threat-informed defense, from the hardware board to the software bytes.

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Threat-Informed Defense Applies Broadly – 2024 R&D Roadmap Update – Part Three

By Suneel Sundar

November 22, 2024

The third principle for our 2024 research program is Threat-Informed Defense applies broadly. You will find Center projects that apply threat-informed defense to artificial intelligence enabled systems, to hardware, and a variety of platforms.

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Share the How – 2024 R&D Roadmap Update – Part Two

By Suneel Sundar

November 22, 2024

Our mission is to advance the state of the art and state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally. To make that transition from art to practice for all defenders, our second principle is Share the how.

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Good Work Becomes Better Work – 2024 R&D Roadmap Update – Part One

By Suneel Sundar

November 22, 2024

Threat-informed defense identifies known adversary behavior, relevant to an organization’s threat model, and fosters a community-driven approach to enable an organization to proactively defend, self-assess, and improve defenses against those known threats.

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Threat Informed Defense to Secure AI

By Tabitha Colter, Shiri Bendelac, Lily Wong, Christina Liaghati, Keith Manville

September 30, 2024

The Secure AI research project is a collaborative effort between MITRE ATLAS™ and the Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Center) designed to facilitate rapid communication of evolving vulnerabilities in the AI security space through effective incident sharing. This research effort will boost …

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Know Your Adversary's Next Move With TIE

By James Ross, Mike Cunningham, Suneel Sundar

September 9, 2024

Describing adversarial behaviors in the form of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) using MITRE ATT&CK® revolutionized detection and response. Focusing on TTPs creates an opportunity for high-fidelity detection of adversaries. If we can detect a behavior, the adversary will need to change …

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Guarding the Grid: Defending Operational Technology With ATT&CK

By Adrian Garcia Gonzalez, Tiffany Bergeron

August 14, 2024

Critical infrastructure such as electrical generation facilities, water treatment plants, and transportation systems are a lifeline for our communities. Unfortunately, this dependence has made critical infrastructure a prime target for threat actors.

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