Our Work

Our Research Approach

Collaborative R&D in the Public Interest

Together with Participant organizations, we cultivate solutions for a safer world and advance threat-informed defense with open-source software, methodologies, and frameworks. By expanding upon the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, our work expands the global understanding of cyber adversaries and their tradecraft with the public release of data sets critical to better understanding adversarial behavior and their movements.

Mapping ATT&CK to CVE for Impact

This research defines a methodology for using MITRE ATT&CK® to characterize the potential impacts of vulnerabilities. ATT&CK’s tactics …

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Threat Report Attack Mapper V1

TRAM is an open-source platform designed to advance research into automating the mapping of cyber threat intelligence reports to MITRE …

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Security Stack Mappings – Amazon Web Services

This project empowers organizations with independent data on which native AWS security controls are most useful in defending against the …

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ATT&CK Integration into VERIS V1

This project created a mapping and translation layer between VERIS and ATT&CK that allows ATT&CK to describe the adversary behaviors that …

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Atomic Data Sources

Cyber threat detection starts with understanding the data sources and sensors that can be used to detect a given adversary TTP. Motivated by a …

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Security Stack Mappings – Azure

This project empowers organizations with independent data on which native Azure security controls are most useful in defending against the …

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ATT&CK Workbench V1

ATT&CK Workbench is an easy-to-use open-source tool that allows organizations to manage and extend their own local version of ATT&CK and …

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ATT&CK for Containers

This project investigated the viability of adding container-related techniques into MITRE ATT&CK, leading to the development of an ATT&CK …

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Menupass Adversary Emulation Plan

menuPass is a threat group that has been active since at least 2006. Individual members of menuPass are known to have acted in association with …

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ATT&CK for Cloud

This project refined and expanded MITRE ATT&CK’s coverage of adversary behaviors in cloud environments. Through our research, we refactored …

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Caldera Pathfinder

This open-source CALDERA plugin helps you understand what a vulnerability exposes to an adversary and what potential destructive paths an …

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FIN6 Emulation Plan

FIN6 is a cyber-crime group that has stolen payment card data and sold it for profit on underground marketplaces. This group has aggressively …

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