Analyst Report

SANS 2022 ATT&CK™ and D3FEND™ Report

For many years, organizations have relied on the MITRE ATT&CK™ framework as a valuable resource to catalog adversary tactics and techniques. The information security community has leveraged ATT&CK to help guide investigations, write robust detections, and enrich threat intelligence. In June 2021, a cooperation between the National Security Agency (NSA) and MITRE released D3FEND, a complementary framework that provides insight into defensive measures for enterprise defense.

This report will explore:

How to leverage D3FEND to enhance enterprise security defenses
How to utilize ATT&CK and D3FEND together to detect and counter attacker tactics and techniques
How to incorporate D3FEND countermeasures into your daily *DR workflows
How the security community can give back and make D3FEND even better