Sajal Thomas and Vishnu Raju of CrowdStrike discuss adversary emulation, which involves researching and replicating the tactics, techniques, and procedures of real-world adversaries to bolster defenses. They describe emulating the LightNeuron/Blueprint malware used by the Russian group Venomous Bear, which can intercept and modify emails on infected Microsoft Exchange servers. The presentation outlines their process for gathering intelligence on the malware and emulating its various components and techniques to improve CrowdStrike's detection abilities.
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Andrew Northern, Proofpoint and Michael August Raggi, Google
"Join us for an enthralling exploration of Defense Evasion (TA0005) within the captivating realm of Hyrule. Prepare to immerse yourself in the intriguing history of shortcut (.lnk) abuse and its associated procedures, as we unveil and demonstrate an innovative and previously undisclosed sub-technique (proposed) of T1027 (Obfuscated Files or Information).
During this talk, we will go beyond theory and share real-world insights. Discover firsthand how publicly attributed APT actors have leveraged this new sub-technique in their attacks against government entities. Through captivating stories and in-depth observations, we will shed light on the techniques and procedures employed by these adversaries.
Levity and entertainment will be courtesy of timely and relevant bespoke Legend of Zelda memes playing upon the concept of the ""master hand ability"" gluing together bizarre elements to create surprisingly effective weapons, a concept that runs parallel to the discussion of abusing known Windows file types in unconventional ways.
Join us as we embark on this fascinating journey filled with knowledge, entertainment, and a touch of Legend of Zelda magic!"
CISA usage of ATT&CK in Cybersecurity AdvisoriesMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By James Stanley, CISA
"CISA's Adoption of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Over the past several years, CISA has worked to incorporate ATT&CK whenever applicable into our Cybersecurity Advisories and other cyber guidance. It has become the universal language for discussing how the adversary operates, and we leverage it for our stakeholders to respond to urgent events in real time, as well as detailed reports on subjects like our Red Team activities to give network defenders proactive guidance on how to harden their networks."
Evaluating and Enhancing Security Maturity through MITRE ATT&CK MappingMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Pranusha Somareddy, Lark Health
"By aligning security controls with specific adversary techniques and tactics, organizations can gain a comprehensive understanding of their defensive capabilities. This mapping exercise serves as a vital step in identifying potential gaps and weaknesses within the security architecture. The evaluation of security maturity using the MITRE ATT&CK framework provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of existing controls, shedding light on areas that require improvement or further attention.
In this presentation, we will delve into practical strategies and real-world examples that showcase how organizations can successfully leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework to enhance their security maturity. We will also explore key topics such as:
(i)Customizing security training and awareness programs based on roles and responsibilities
(ii)Conducting thorough assessments of incident response capabilities through the framework
(iii)Integrating threat intelligence derived from ATT&CK to continuously improve the security posture"
Detection as Code, Automation, and Testing: The Key to Unlocking the Power of...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Olaf Harton, FalconForce
"Modern security teams have been engineering solid detections for a while now. All this great output also needs to be managed well.
* How can we make sure that the detections we have spent a lot of time developing are deployed and are running in production in the same way as they were designed?
* How can we assure our detection and prevention controls are still working and are detecting the attacks they have been designed to cover?
We will show how we have built a robust and flexible development and deployment process using cloud technnologies. This process allows us to quickly and easily implement new detection controls, test them across multiple environments, and deploy them in a controlled and consistent manner.
We will discuss how security teams can reap the benefits of using detection-as-code, and how this can help achieving a single source of truth for their detection logic. Adopting this approach enables teams to use automation and unit testing to manage and validate their detection controls across multiple environments and ensure proper documentation. By adopting a detection-as-code approach, teams can gain the confidence that comes from knowing that their detections and mitigations work as intended."
Mapping ATT&CK Techniques to ENGAGE ActivitiesMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By David Barroso, CounterCraft
When an adversary engages in a specific behavior, they are vulnerable to expose an unintended weakness. By looking at each ATT&CK technique, we can examine the weaknesses revealed and identify an engagement activity or activities to exploit this weakness.
During the presentation we will see some real examples of how we can use different ATT&CK techniques in order to plan different adversary engagement activities.
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Andrew Northern, Proofpoint and Michael August Raggi, Google
"Join us for an enthralling exploration of Defense Evasion (TA0005) within the captivating realm of Hyrule. Prepare to immerse yourself in the intriguing history of shortcut (.lnk) abuse and its associated procedures, as we unveil and demonstrate an innovative and previously undisclosed sub-technique (proposed) of T1027 (Obfuscated Files or Information).
During this talk, we will go beyond theory and share real-world insights. Discover firsthand how publicly attributed APT actors have leveraged this new sub-technique in their attacks against government entities. Through captivating stories and in-depth observations, we will shed light on the techniques and procedures employed by these adversaries.
Levity and entertainment will be courtesy of timely and relevant bespoke Legend of Zelda memes playing upon the concept of the ""master hand ability"" gluing together bizarre elements to create surprisingly effective weapons, a concept that runs parallel to the discussion of abusing known Windows file types in unconventional ways.
Join us as we embark on this fascinating journey filled with knowledge, entertainment, and a touch of Legend of Zelda magic!"
CISA usage of ATT&CK in Cybersecurity AdvisoriesMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By James Stanley, CISA
"CISA's Adoption of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Over the past several years, CISA has worked to incorporate ATT&CK whenever applicable into our Cybersecurity Advisories and other cyber guidance. It has become the universal language for discussing how the adversary operates, and we leverage it for our stakeholders to respond to urgent events in real time, as well as detailed reports on subjects like our Red Team activities to give network defenders proactive guidance on how to harden their networks."
Evaluating and Enhancing Security Maturity through MITRE ATT&CK MappingMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Pranusha Somareddy, Lark Health
"By aligning security controls with specific adversary techniques and tactics, organizations can gain a comprehensive understanding of their defensive capabilities. This mapping exercise serves as a vital step in identifying potential gaps and weaknesses within the security architecture. The evaluation of security maturity using the MITRE ATT&CK framework provides valuable insights into the effectiveness of existing controls, shedding light on areas that require improvement or further attention.
In this presentation, we will delve into practical strategies and real-world examples that showcase how organizations can successfully leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework to enhance their security maturity. We will also explore key topics such as:
(i)Customizing security training and awareness programs based on roles and responsibilities
(ii)Conducting thorough assessments of incident response capabilities through the framework
(iii)Integrating threat intelligence derived from ATT&CK to continuously improve the security posture"
Detection as Code, Automation, and Testing: The Key to Unlocking the Power of...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Olaf Harton, FalconForce
"Modern security teams have been engineering solid detections for a while now. All this great output also needs to be managed well.
* How can we make sure that the detections we have spent a lot of time developing are deployed and are running in production in the same way as they were designed?
* How can we assure our detection and prevention controls are still working and are detecting the attacks they have been designed to cover?
We will show how we have built a robust and flexible development and deployment process using cloud technnologies. This process allows us to quickly and easily implement new detection controls, test them across multiple environments, and deploy them in a controlled and consistent manner.
We will discuss how security teams can reap the benefits of using detection-as-code, and how this can help achieving a single source of truth for their detection logic. Adopting this approach enables teams to use automation and unit testing to manage and validate their detection controls across multiple environments and ensure proper documentation. By adopting a detection-as-code approach, teams can gain the confidence that comes from knowing that their detections and mitigations work as intended."
Mapping ATT&CK Techniques to ENGAGE ActivitiesMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By David Barroso, CounterCraft
When an adversary engages in a specific behavior, they are vulnerable to expose an unintended weakness. By looking at each ATT&CK technique, we can examine the weaknesses revealed and identify an engagement activity or activities to exploit this weakness.
During the presentation we will see some real examples of how we can use different ATT&CK techniques in order to plan different adversary engagement activities.
Grow Up! Evaluating and Maturing Your SOC using MITRE ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Lauren Brennan, GuidePoint Security
Evaluating the maturity of your security operations program can be complex and challenging. From choosing the right framework to use, to understanding all aspects of how people, processes, and technologies can cohesively operate to grow your SOC, evaluating your security operations is crucial. This presentation will discuss how to evaluate your security operations program using the MITRE ATT&CK framework and talk about best practices for evaluations. We will explore how to identify gaps in your operations and improve your overall security posture with foundational activities. Attendees can expect to learn practical tips for leveraging the MITRE framework as well as actionable takeaways for evaluating and improving their own security operations.
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Fred Frey and Jonathan Mulholland, SnapAttack
Atomic Red Team and Sigma are the largest open-source attack simulation and analytic projects. Many organizations utilize one or both internally for security controls validation or supplementing their detections and alerts. Building on the work from these two great communities, we smashed (scientific-term) the attacks and analytics together and applied data science to analyze the results. We'll describe our methodology and testing framework, show the real-world MITRE ATT&CK coverage and gaps, discuss our algorithms for calculating analytic similarity, identifying log sources for a technique, and determining the best analytics to deploy that maximizes ATT&CK coverage.
This project aims to:
- Bring a measurable testing rigor to community analytics to improve adoption
- Test every analytic against every attack, validating the true positive detection
- Understand the log sources required to detect specific attack techniques
- Apply data science to identify analytic similarity (reduce community duplication)
- Identify gaps between the projects' analytics without attack simulations; attack simulations without detections; missing or incorrect MITRE ATT&CK labels, etc
- Automate the process so insights can stay up to date with new attack/analytic contributions over time
- Share our analysis back to the community to improve these projects
Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK: Enhancing Operations Through the Tracking of Interac...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jason Wood and Justin Swisher, CrowdStrike
When it comes to understanding and tracking intrusion tradecraft, security teams must have the tools and processes that allow the mapping of hands-on adversary tradecraft. Doing this enables your team to both understand the adversaries and attacks you currently see and observe how these adversaries and attacks evolve over time. This session will explore how a threat hunting team uses MITRE ATT&CK to understand and categorize adversary activity. The team will demonstrate how threat hunters map ATT&CK TTPs by showcasing a recent interactive intrusion against a Linux endpoint and how the framework allowed for granular tracking of tradecraft and enhanced security operations. They will also take a look into the changes in the Linux activity they have observed over time, using the ATT&CK navigator to compare and contrast technique usage. This session will provide insights into how we use MITRE ATT&CK as a powerful resource to track intrusion tradecraft, identify adversary trends, and prepare for attacks of the future.
Driving Intelligence with MITRE ATT&CK: Leveraging Limited Resources to Build...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Scott Roberts, Interpres Security
"Building threat intelligence is challenging, even under the most ideal circumstances. But what if you are even more limited in your resources? You are part of a small (but skilled) team, with high expectations, and people are relying on you to make business-critical decisions…all the time! What do you do in that situation? Turn a Toyota Tercel into a tank, of course.
The Interpres Security threat intelligence team found itself in that exact situation. Wanting to leverage the MITRE ATT&CK catalog in creating a comprehensive and timely threat intelligence repository, the Interpres team built a series of tools, processes, and paradigms that we call Intelligence Engineering. In this talk, we’ll examine how we combined ATT&CK, STIX2, the Vertex Project’s open-source intelligence platform, Synapse, and custom code to deliver meaningful, rapid, verifiable intelligence to our customers. We’ll share lessons learned on automation, how to run multiple ATT&CK libraries side-by-side, and making programmatic intelligence delivery scalable and effective – just like building a tank out of an imported sedan."
Knowledge for the masses: Storytelling with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Ismael Valenzuela and Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, Trellix
The Trellix team believes that creating and sharing compelling stories about cyber threats -with ATT&CK- is a powerful way for raising awareness and enabling actionability against cyber threats.
In this talk the team will share their experiences leveraging ATT&CK to disseminate Threat knowledge to different audiences (Software Development teams, Managers, Threat detection engineers, Threat hunters, Cyber Threat Analysts, Support Engineers, upper management, etc.).
They will show concrete examples and representations created with ATT&CK to describe the threats at different levels, including: 1) an Attack Path graph that shows the overall flow of the attack; 2) Tactic-specific TTP summary tables and graphs; 3) very detailed, step-by-step description of the attacker's behaviors.
FIRST CTI Symposium: Turning intelligence into action with MITRE ATT&CK™Katie Nickels
Katie Nickels and Adam Pennington presented "Turning intelligence into action with MITRE ATT&CK™" at the FIRST CTI Symposium in London on 20 March 2019.
MITRE ATT&CK based Threat Analysis for Electronic Flight BagMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Ozan Olali, IBM Security
The Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) has become an indispensable tool in modern aviation, providing pilots with digital resources and critical flight information. However, the increased reliance on EFB systems running on operating systems, introduces various security challenges. In this session, a technical assessment approach with MITRE ATT&CK framework to perform a comprehensive threat analysis of an EFB solution, will be presented. The potential attack vectors and relation with the risks for business/ flight operations will be demonstrated.
It's just a jump to the left (of boom): Prioritizing detection implementation...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Lindsay Kaye and Scott Small, Recorded Future
Many organizations ask: "Where do I start, and where do I go next" when prioritizing implementation of behavior-based detections? We often hear "use threat intelligence!" but your goals must be qualified and quantified in order to properly prioritize the most relevant TTPs. A wealth of open-sourced, ATT&CK-mapped resources now exists, giving security teams greater access to both detections and red team tests they can implement, but intelligence (also aligned with ATT&CK), is essential to provide necessary context to ensure that detection efforts are focused effectively.
This session will discuss a new approach to the prioritization challenge, starting with an analysis of the current defensive landscape, as measured by ATT&CK coverage for more than a dozen detection repositories and technologies, and guidance on sourcing TTP intelligence. The team will then show how real-world defensive strategies can be strengthened by encompassing a full-spectrum view of threat detection, including the implementation of YARA, Sigma, and Snort in security appliances. Critically, alignment of both intelligence and defenses with ATT&CK enables defenders to move the focus of detection efforts to indications of malicious behavior before the final payload is deployed, where controls are most effective at preventing serious damage to the organization.
One Leg to Stand on: Adventures in Adversary Tracking with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Nicole Hoffman and James Nutland, Cisco
How many times have you added MITRE ATT&CK techniques to the end of a report and thought you could be doing more? Even though ATT&CK has become an industry standard for cyber threat intelligence reporting, all too often, techniques are thrown at the bottoms of reports and blogs without any context never to be seen again after dissemination. This is not useful for intelligence producers or consumers. Avast ye maties! Within this presentation, we are going to show analysts how they can use ATT&CK as a guideline for creating a contextual knowledge base for adversary tracking. Gone are the days of floundering about looking for information collected about a specific adversary or behavior. Gone are the days of wondering why the rum and context are always gone. Ahoy, me hearties! Hoist up the sails and prepare your sea legs for some swashbuckling adversary tales from the high seas where we will focus on the fickle commodity loader, Qakbot.
Exploring the Labyrinth: Deep dive into the Lazarus Group's foray into macOSMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Marina Liang
"LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA is a prolific Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) nexus adversary focused on cyber espionage. They have been recently observed targeting FinTech (financial technology) companies in cryptocurrency revenue generation efforts. LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA has been associated with many high profile attacks, including the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) breach, the WannaCry 2.0 global surge, and most recently, the 3CX supply chain compromise. Increasingly versed in cross-platform intrusions, LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA has been observed targeting macOS operating systems, and evolving their tactics, techniques, and tooling to keep in lockstep with the evolving security landscape.
This talk will deep dive into the interactive macOS intrusions Crowdstrike has attributed to LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA. We will delve into the adversary's macOS tradecraft, techniques to circumvent existing OS protections, and social engineering tactics, while showcasing how their mechanisms and tooling map to the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain, featuring some newly proposed MITRE techniques related to the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) database."
Exploring how Students Map Social Engineering Techniques to the ATT&CK Framew...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Aunshul Rege, Katorah Williams, and Rachel Bleiman, Temple University
Social engineering (SE) is a technique used by cybercriminals to psychologically manipulate individuals into disclosing sensitive information and providing unauthorized access. Penetration testers are tasked with simulating targeted attacks on a company's system to determine any weaknesses in their environment.
The 2021 Summer SE Pen Test Competition allowed students to experience SE pen testing in a safe and ethical way. Student teams were "hired" to conduct a SE pen test on the CARE Lab (run by the authors) and their employees (the authors themselves)! Teams had to use OSINT, phishing, and vishing in real-time to target the lab, develop attack playbooks, and map the techniques to the ATT&CK framework.
This talk shares the application of ATT&CK in cybersecurity education. Specifically, it (i) focuses on how students map their SE attack playbooks to the ATT&CK framework, (ii) compares/contrasts SE techniques across various student groups: 6 graduate teams, 9 undergraduate teams, and 1 high school team, and (iii) how ATT&CK can be used for SE.
What is ATT&CK coverage, anyway? Breadth and depth analysis with Atomic Red TeamMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Brian Donohue, Red Canary
This presentation will highlight the Atomic Red Team project's efforts to define and increase the test coverage of MITRE ATT&CK techniques. We'll describe the challenges we encountered in defining what "coverage" means in the context of an ATT&CK-based framework, and how to use that definition to improve an open source project that's used by a diverse audience of practitioners to satisfy an equally diverse array of needs. The audience will learn how the Atomic Red Team maintainers standardize and categorize atomic tests, perform gap analysis to achieve deep technique-level coverage and broad matrix-level coverage, and quickly fill those gaps with new tests.
The ATT&CK Latin American APT PlaybookMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Santiago Pontiroli and Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky
Financially motivated cyber-attacks thrive in emerging Latin American markets. However, there's room for locally grown threat actors operating in the cyber espionage field as well. During the last decade, this includes but is not limited to Blind Eagle, Puppeteer, Machete, Poseidon, and others. We also saw foreign operations targeting specific assets in Latin America, still connected to certain regional sources.
Since the threat actors' origin, culture, and language is often different, it's not uncommon for tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to present marked differences. As a result of our regional expertise and experience, we created MITRE's ATT&CK play-by-play mappings to help other analysts understand regional actors. If you are interested in threat intelligence and what's going on in Latin America, this presentation is for you. Our work is based only on real-world attackers and their operations, including those not publicly known, such as COVID-19 Machete's targeted campaign.
Tidying up your Nest: Validating ATT&CK Technique Coverage using EDR TelemetryMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Adam Ostrich and Jesse Brown, Red Canary
"Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) telemetry offers defenders a powerful tool for catching threats. However, understanding how to validate ATT&CK technique coverage using EDR telemetry can be a challenge. As Detection Validation Engineers at a Managed Detection & Response (MDR) provider that ingests nearly a petabyte of endpoint telemetry every day, we’re in the unique and necessary position to analyze this telemetry at scale and validate its efficacy against common adversary tradecraft.
After providing a brief introduction to EDR telemetry, we’ll discuss how to break ATT&CK techniques down to individual data components, perform functional tests, analyze the ways that specific actions translate to telemetry records, and compare this analysis across different EDR sensors. We’ll discuss the tooling we’ve built to assist us in running these tests and analyzing the resulting telemetry, and we’ll explain how security teams can improve their own functional testing efforts by creating an automated validation workflow. Finally, we’ll describe how this approach has enabled us to more effectively understand and use EDR telemetry, highlighting where this telemetry excels and fails at detecting ATT&CK techniques."
Landing on Jupyter: The transformative power of data-driven storytelling for ...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jose Barajas and Stephan Chenette, AttackIQ
Every cybersecurity leader wants visibility into the health of their security program. Yet teams suffer with disparate data streams - CTI teams and the SOC often use separate Excel spreadsheets, an anachronistic practice - and silos constrain their ability to operate effectively. Enter the Jupyter notebook, an open-source computational notebook that researchers use to combine code, computing output, text, and media into a single interface. In this talk, we share three stories of how organizations use Jupyter notebooks to align ATT&CK-based attack flows to the security program, generating data about detection and prevention failures, defensive gaps, and longitudinal performance. By using Jupyter notebooks in this way, teams can better leverage ATT&CK for security effectiveness. It becomes less of a bingo card and more of a strategic tool for understanding the health of the program against big tactics (I.e., lateral movement), defensive gaps (I.e., micro-segmentation), and the team's performance.
MITRE ATT&CKcon 2018: Hunters ATT&CKing with the Data, Roberto Rodriguez, Spe...MITRE - ATT&CKcon
With the development of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and its categorization of adversary activity during the attack cycle, understanding what to hunt for has become easier and more efficient than ever. However, organizations are still struggling to understand how they can prioritize the development of hunt hypothesis, assess their current security posture, and develop the right analytics with the help of ATT&CK. Even though there are several ways to utilize ATT&CK to accomplish those goals, there are only a few that are focusing primarily on the data that is currently being collected to drive the success of a hunt program.
This presentation shows how organizations can benefit from mapping their current visibility from a data perspective to the ATT&CK framework. It focuses on how to identify, document, standardize and model current available data to enhance a hunt program. It presents an updated ThreatHunter-Playbook, a Kibana ATT&CK dashboard, a new project named Open Source Security Events Metadata known as OSSEM and expands on the “data sources” section already provided by ATT&CK on most of the documented adversarial techniques.
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jared Stroud, Lacework
Adversaries target common cloud misconfigurations in container-focused workflows for initial access. Whether this is Docker or Kubernetes environments, Lacework Labs has identified adversaries attempting to deploy malicious container images (T1610) , mine Cryptocurrency (T1496), and deploy C2 agents. Defenders new to the container space may be unaware of the built-in capabilities popular container runtime engines have that can help defend against rogue containers being deployed into their environment. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of what these attack patterns look like based on honeypot data Lacework has gathered over the past year, as well as techniques on how to defend their own container focused workloads.
Grow Up! Evaluating and Maturing Your SOC using MITRE ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Lauren Brennan, GuidePoint Security
Evaluating the maturity of your security operations program can be complex and challenging. From choosing the right framework to use, to understanding all aspects of how people, processes, and technologies can cohesively operate to grow your SOC, evaluating your security operations is crucial. This presentation will discuss how to evaluate your security operations program using the MITRE ATT&CK framework and talk about best practices for evaluations. We will explore how to identify gaps in your operations and improve your overall security posture with foundational activities. Attendees can expect to learn practical tips for leveraging the MITRE framework as well as actionable takeaways for evaluating and improving their own security operations.
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Fred Frey and Jonathan Mulholland, SnapAttack
Atomic Red Team and Sigma are the largest open-source attack simulation and analytic projects. Many organizations utilize one or both internally for security controls validation or supplementing their detections and alerts. Building on the work from these two great communities, we smashed (scientific-term) the attacks and analytics together and applied data science to analyze the results. We'll describe our methodology and testing framework, show the real-world MITRE ATT&CK coverage and gaps, discuss our algorithms for calculating analytic similarity, identifying log sources for a technique, and determining the best analytics to deploy that maximizes ATT&CK coverage.
This project aims to:
- Bring a measurable testing rigor to community analytics to improve adoption
- Test every analytic against every attack, validating the true positive detection
- Understand the log sources required to detect specific attack techniques
- Apply data science to identify analytic similarity (reduce community duplication)
- Identify gaps between the projects' analytics without attack simulations; attack simulations without detections; missing or incorrect MITRE ATT&CK labels, etc
- Automate the process so insights can stay up to date with new attack/analytic contributions over time
- Share our analysis back to the community to improve these projects
Mapping to MITRE ATT&CK: Enhancing Operations Through the Tracking of Interac...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jason Wood and Justin Swisher, CrowdStrike
When it comes to understanding and tracking intrusion tradecraft, security teams must have the tools and processes that allow the mapping of hands-on adversary tradecraft. Doing this enables your team to both understand the adversaries and attacks you currently see and observe how these adversaries and attacks evolve over time. This session will explore how a threat hunting team uses MITRE ATT&CK to understand and categorize adversary activity. The team will demonstrate how threat hunters map ATT&CK TTPs by showcasing a recent interactive intrusion against a Linux endpoint and how the framework allowed for granular tracking of tradecraft and enhanced security operations. They will also take a look into the changes in the Linux activity they have observed over time, using the ATT&CK navigator to compare and contrast technique usage. This session will provide insights into how we use MITRE ATT&CK as a powerful resource to track intrusion tradecraft, identify adversary trends, and prepare for attacks of the future.
Driving Intelligence with MITRE ATT&CK: Leveraging Limited Resources to Build...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Scott Roberts, Interpres Security
"Building threat intelligence is challenging, even under the most ideal circumstances. But what if you are even more limited in your resources? You are part of a small (but skilled) team, with high expectations, and people are relying on you to make business-critical decisions…all the time! What do you do in that situation? Turn a Toyota Tercel into a tank, of course.
The Interpres Security threat intelligence team found itself in that exact situation. Wanting to leverage the MITRE ATT&CK catalog in creating a comprehensive and timely threat intelligence repository, the Interpres team built a series of tools, processes, and paradigms that we call Intelligence Engineering. In this talk, we’ll examine how we combined ATT&CK, STIX2, the Vertex Project’s open-source intelligence platform, Synapse, and custom code to deliver meaningful, rapid, verifiable intelligence to our customers. We’ll share lessons learned on automation, how to run multiple ATT&CK libraries side-by-side, and making programmatic intelligence delivery scalable and effective – just like building a tank out of an imported sedan."
Knowledge for the masses: Storytelling with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Ismael Valenzuela and Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, Trellix
The Trellix team believes that creating and sharing compelling stories about cyber threats -with ATT&CK- is a powerful way for raising awareness and enabling actionability against cyber threats.
In this talk the team will share their experiences leveraging ATT&CK to disseminate Threat knowledge to different audiences (Software Development teams, Managers, Threat detection engineers, Threat hunters, Cyber Threat Analysts, Support Engineers, upper management, etc.).
They will show concrete examples and representations created with ATT&CK to describe the threats at different levels, including: 1) an Attack Path graph that shows the overall flow of the attack; 2) Tactic-specific TTP summary tables and graphs; 3) very detailed, step-by-step description of the attacker's behaviors.
FIRST CTI Symposium: Turning intelligence into action with MITRE ATT&CK™Katie Nickels
Katie Nickels and Adam Pennington presented "Turning intelligence into action with MITRE ATT&CK™" at the FIRST CTI Symposium in London on 20 March 2019.
MITRE ATT&CK based Threat Analysis for Electronic Flight BagMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Ozan Olali, IBM Security
The Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) has become an indispensable tool in modern aviation, providing pilots with digital resources and critical flight information. However, the increased reliance on EFB systems running on operating systems, introduces various security challenges. In this session, a technical assessment approach with MITRE ATT&CK framework to perform a comprehensive threat analysis of an EFB solution, will be presented. The potential attack vectors and relation with the risks for business/ flight operations will be demonstrated.
It's just a jump to the left (of boom): Prioritizing detection implementation...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Lindsay Kaye and Scott Small, Recorded Future
Many organizations ask: "Where do I start, and where do I go next" when prioritizing implementation of behavior-based detections? We often hear "use threat intelligence!" but your goals must be qualified and quantified in order to properly prioritize the most relevant TTPs. A wealth of open-sourced, ATT&CK-mapped resources now exists, giving security teams greater access to both detections and red team tests they can implement, but intelligence (also aligned with ATT&CK), is essential to provide necessary context to ensure that detection efforts are focused effectively.
This session will discuss a new approach to the prioritization challenge, starting with an analysis of the current defensive landscape, as measured by ATT&CK coverage for more than a dozen detection repositories and technologies, and guidance on sourcing TTP intelligence. The team will then show how real-world defensive strategies can be strengthened by encompassing a full-spectrum view of threat detection, including the implementation of YARA, Sigma, and Snort in security appliances. Critically, alignment of both intelligence and defenses with ATT&CK enables defenders to move the focus of detection efforts to indications of malicious behavior before the final payload is deployed, where controls are most effective at preventing serious damage to the organization.
One Leg to Stand on: Adventures in Adversary Tracking with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Nicole Hoffman and James Nutland, Cisco
How many times have you added MITRE ATT&CK techniques to the end of a report and thought you could be doing more? Even though ATT&CK has become an industry standard for cyber threat intelligence reporting, all too often, techniques are thrown at the bottoms of reports and blogs without any context never to be seen again after dissemination. This is not useful for intelligence producers or consumers. Avast ye maties! Within this presentation, we are going to show analysts how they can use ATT&CK as a guideline for creating a contextual knowledge base for adversary tracking. Gone are the days of floundering about looking for information collected about a specific adversary or behavior. Gone are the days of wondering why the rum and context are always gone. Ahoy, me hearties! Hoist up the sails and prepare your sea legs for some swashbuckling adversary tales from the high seas where we will focus on the fickle commodity loader, Qakbot.
Exploring the Labyrinth: Deep dive into the Lazarus Group's foray into macOSMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Marina Liang
"LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA is a prolific Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) nexus adversary focused on cyber espionage. They have been recently observed targeting FinTech (financial technology) companies in cryptocurrency revenue generation efforts. LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA has been associated with many high profile attacks, including the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) breach, the WannaCry 2.0 global surge, and most recently, the 3CX supply chain compromise. Increasingly versed in cross-platform intrusions, LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA has been observed targeting macOS operating systems, and evolving their tactics, techniques, and tooling to keep in lockstep with the evolving security landscape.
This talk will deep dive into the interactive macOS intrusions Crowdstrike has attributed to LABYRINTH CHOLLIMA. We will delve into the adversary's macOS tradecraft, techniques to circumvent existing OS protections, and social engineering tactics, while showcasing how their mechanisms and tooling map to the MITRE ATT&CK kill chain, featuring some newly proposed MITRE techniques related to the Transparency, Consent, and Control (TCC) database."
Exploring how Students Map Social Engineering Techniques to the ATT&CK Framew...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Aunshul Rege, Katorah Williams, and Rachel Bleiman, Temple University
Social engineering (SE) is a technique used by cybercriminals to psychologically manipulate individuals into disclosing sensitive information and providing unauthorized access. Penetration testers are tasked with simulating targeted attacks on a company's system to determine any weaknesses in their environment.
The 2021 Summer SE Pen Test Competition allowed students to experience SE pen testing in a safe and ethical way. Student teams were "hired" to conduct a SE pen test on the CARE Lab (run by the authors) and their employees (the authors themselves)! Teams had to use OSINT, phishing, and vishing in real-time to target the lab, develop attack playbooks, and map the techniques to the ATT&CK framework.
This talk shares the application of ATT&CK in cybersecurity education. Specifically, it (i) focuses on how students map their SE attack playbooks to the ATT&CK framework, (ii) compares/contrasts SE techniques across various student groups: 6 graduate teams, 9 undergraduate teams, and 1 high school team, and (iii) how ATT&CK can be used for SE.
What is ATT&CK coverage, anyway? Breadth and depth analysis with Atomic Red TeamMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Brian Donohue, Red Canary
This presentation will highlight the Atomic Red Team project's efforts to define and increase the test coverage of MITRE ATT&CK techniques. We'll describe the challenges we encountered in defining what "coverage" means in the context of an ATT&CK-based framework, and how to use that definition to improve an open source project that's used by a diverse audience of practitioners to satisfy an equally diverse array of needs. The audience will learn how the Atomic Red Team maintainers standardize and categorize atomic tests, perform gap analysis to achieve deep technique-level coverage and broad matrix-level coverage, and quickly fill those gaps with new tests.
The ATT&CK Latin American APT PlaybookMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Santiago Pontiroli and Dmitry Bestuzhev, Kaspersky
Financially motivated cyber-attacks thrive in emerging Latin American markets. However, there's room for locally grown threat actors operating in the cyber espionage field as well. During the last decade, this includes but is not limited to Blind Eagle, Puppeteer, Machete, Poseidon, and others. We also saw foreign operations targeting specific assets in Latin America, still connected to certain regional sources.
Since the threat actors' origin, culture, and language is often different, it's not uncommon for tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to present marked differences. As a result of our regional expertise and experience, we created MITRE's ATT&CK play-by-play mappings to help other analysts understand regional actors. If you are interested in threat intelligence and what's going on in Latin America, this presentation is for you. Our work is based only on real-world attackers and their operations, including those not publicly known, such as COVID-19 Machete's targeted campaign.
Tidying up your Nest: Validating ATT&CK Technique Coverage using EDR TelemetryMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Adam Ostrich and Jesse Brown, Red Canary
"Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) telemetry offers defenders a powerful tool for catching threats. However, understanding how to validate ATT&CK technique coverage using EDR telemetry can be a challenge. As Detection Validation Engineers at a Managed Detection & Response (MDR) provider that ingests nearly a petabyte of endpoint telemetry every day, we’re in the unique and necessary position to analyze this telemetry at scale and validate its efficacy against common adversary tradecraft.
After providing a brief introduction to EDR telemetry, we’ll discuss how to break ATT&CK techniques down to individual data components, perform functional tests, analyze the ways that specific actions translate to telemetry records, and compare this analysis across different EDR sensors. We’ll discuss the tooling we’ve built to assist us in running these tests and analyzing the resulting telemetry, and we’ll explain how security teams can improve their own functional testing efforts by creating an automated validation workflow. Finally, we’ll describe how this approach has enabled us to more effectively understand and use EDR telemetry, highlighting where this telemetry excels and fails at detecting ATT&CK techniques."
Landing on Jupyter: The transformative power of data-driven storytelling for ...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jose Barajas and Stephan Chenette, AttackIQ
Every cybersecurity leader wants visibility into the health of their security program. Yet teams suffer with disparate data streams - CTI teams and the SOC often use separate Excel spreadsheets, an anachronistic practice - and silos constrain their ability to operate effectively. Enter the Jupyter notebook, an open-source computational notebook that researchers use to combine code, computing output, text, and media into a single interface. In this talk, we share three stories of how organizations use Jupyter notebooks to align ATT&CK-based attack flows to the security program, generating data about detection and prevention failures, defensive gaps, and longitudinal performance. By using Jupyter notebooks in this way, teams can better leverage ATT&CK for security effectiveness. It becomes less of a bingo card and more of a strategic tool for understanding the health of the program against big tactics (I.e., lateral movement), defensive gaps (I.e., micro-segmentation), and the team's performance.
MITRE ATT&CKcon 2018: Hunters ATT&CKing with the Data, Roberto Rodriguez, Spe...MITRE - ATT&CKcon
With the development of the MITRE ATT&CK framework and its categorization of adversary activity during the attack cycle, understanding what to hunt for has become easier and more efficient than ever. However, organizations are still struggling to understand how they can prioritize the development of hunt hypothesis, assess their current security posture, and develop the right analytics with the help of ATT&CK. Even though there are several ways to utilize ATT&CK to accomplish those goals, there are only a few that are focusing primarily on the data that is currently being collected to drive the success of a hunt program.
This presentation shows how organizations can benefit from mapping their current visibility from a data perspective to the ATT&CK framework. It focuses on how to identify, document, standardize and model current available data to enhance a hunt program. It presents an updated ThreatHunter-Playbook, a Kibana ATT&CK dashboard, a new project named Open Source Security Events Metadata known as OSSEM and expands on the “data sources” section already provided by ATT&CK on most of the documented adversarial techniques.
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Jared Stroud, Lacework
Adversaries target common cloud misconfigurations in container-focused workflows for initial access. Whether this is Docker or Kubernetes environments, Lacework Labs has identified adversaries attempting to deploy malicious container images (T1610) , mine Cryptocurrency (T1496), and deploy C2 agents. Defenders new to the container space may be unaware of the built-in capabilities popular container runtime engines have that can help defend against rogue containers being deployed into their environment. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of what these attack patterns look like based on honeypot data Lacework has gathered over the past year, as well as techniques on how to defend their own container focused workloads.
Insert coin to continue - Ransomware in the gaming industry.pdfStefano Maccaglia
This deck premiered at Black Hat in Las Vegas in August.
He explains two cases referring to the world of online gaming, in particular betting and online casinos.
These companies show two faces, on the one hand a great competence and attention to the quality of the code and the security of their portals, but they do not seem to be sensitive to the application of the same level of controls for what concerns their staff. As always the devil is in the details and the ransomware gangs know it well.
The Unintended Risks of Trusting Active DirectoryWill Schroeder
This presentation was given at Sp4rkCon 2018. It covers the combination of Active Directory and host-based security descriptor backdooring and the associated security implications.
Overcoming the Challenges of Architecting for the CloudZscaler
The concept of backhauling traffic to a centralized datacenter worked when both users and applications resided there. But, the migration of applications from the data center to the cloud requires organizations to rethink their branch and network architectures. What is the best approach to manage costs, reduce risk, and deliver the best user experience for all your users?
Watch this webcast to uncover the five key requirements to overcome these challenges and securely route your branch traffic direct to the cloud.
Moving the crown jewels to the cloud requires a trusted cloud provider. This is why almost 40% of enterprises choose to run internal applications on Azure, which was designed to deliver more choice, scalability, and speed. However, this also extends the security perimeter to the Internet - rendering network-centric security methods obsolete.
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I got 99 trends and a # is all of them or How we found over 100 200+ RCE vulnerabilities in Trend Micro software.
Presentation released at Hack In The Box 2017 Amsterdam, by Roberto Suggi Liverani @malerisch and Steven Seeley @steventseeley.
For more information, please visit: http://blog.malerisch.net or http://srcincite.io
Pursuing evasive custom command & control - GuideMMark Secretario
This talk is all about dissecting C3 channels and how the attacker leverages this technique in order to exfiltrate data using cloud storage provider
- Investigating in-memory attacks leveraging legitimate 3rd party services like Dropbox, OneDrive, and Slack to use as a medium for Command & Control Communication
- Detecting usage and exfiltration optimizing custom command & control channels
Is your organization prepared to face a large-scale attack from hacktivists or cybercriminals? This webinar provides a step-by-step plan to protect web applications using proven strategies from application security consultants that have been on the front lines of attack. This presentation from Imperva and WhiteHat Security outlines the steps your organization can take to implement a comprehensive strategy for repelling web attacks. This presentation will (1) describe the modern attack methods and tools used by hacktivists and cybercriminals (2) explain the processes and technologies you can use to safeguard your website (3) help you prioritize security efforts and identify security tips and tricks you might have overlooked.
[CB21] The Lazarus Group's Attack Operations Targeting Japan by Shusei Tomona...CODE BLUE
The activities of the Lazarus group have not been focused on in Japan. However, in our recent incident response efforts, more and more domestic organizations have become targets of the Lazarus Group.
This presentation will explain in detail the cases where Japanese organizations were targeted by the Lazarus group.
The presentation will begin with an overview of the Lazarus group's attack campaigns, linking the attack operations we describe to other publicly available information. Then, we will focus on two of the Lazarus campaigns confirmed in Japan in 2020, and introduce the latest TTPs, including the characteristics of the malware and the tools used in the attacks.
The first one, Operation Dream Job, is an attack campaign targeting the defense industry, and attacks have been confirmed worldwide. A number of malware have been confirmed to have been used in this attack campaign, and the details of these will be explained. We will also introduce the tools and techniques used by the attackers in the network, and organize the TTP in ATT&CK.
The second attack, Operation JTrack, was an attack campaign targeting Japanese organizations, and multiple organizations were targeted. The second attack campaign, Operation JTrack, targeted multiple organizations in Japan. Several malware and tools were also used in this attack campaign, which will be explained in detail.
Finally, the TTPs of the two attack campaigns presented will be compared to show the information that can be used for countermeasures.＜br＞Throughout this presentation, the Lazarus group Through this presentation, you will be able to understand the latest TTPs of the Lazarus group and use them to take action in the future.
CodeMotion 2023 - Deep dive nella supply chain della nostra infrastruttura cl...sparkfabrik
In this talk I’ll explain what is the Software Supply Chain, common threats and mitigations and how they apply to IAC ecosystem too. I’ll show off security threats using Terraform and its ecosystem and finally i’ll talk about OCI images talking about digital signatures and SBOM using Sigstore and Syft. I’ll do a live coding session showing off how to deploy secure OCI images on K8S cluster with security policies built with Kyverno, the session includes also security scanning using the generated SBOM.
Public facing web sites are constantly under attack and keeping websites protected is an arms race, yet security rarely gets a look-in at specification and budget allocation stages of delivering a web site - or at best is an afterthought. Yet everyone has an expectation of security and QOS that implies it is central to every project.
Security considerations should pervade all stages of a project from initial specification, throughout development and testing and on to ongoing hosting and maintenance.
In this session I will cover:
* Common threats to web security with real world case studies of compromised sites,
* Simple approaches to mitigating common threats/vulnerabilities,
* Defence in depth – an overview of the various components of web security,
* Drupal specific measures that standard penetration testing often does not account for.
* An overview of how to benefit from:
* Security monitoring and log analysis
* Intrusion Detection Systems & Firewalls
* Security headers and Content Security Policies (CSP).
Comments: https://joind.in/talk/8bbea
Containers At-Risk: A Review of 21,000 Cloud EnvironmentsLacework
Securing workloads in public clouds requires a different approach than that used for traditional data centers. The need to operate security at cloud speed, respond to continuous change, and adapt at scale all require a dramatic shift in the type of security solution required by today’s operation.
Jon Noble. Jon will give a brief overview of why you should consider security as part of your CloudStack deployment, why your approach to security needs to be different than in a traditional environment, and also talk about some of the motives behind the attacks – why they attack you and what they do once they have compromised a system.
Similar to ATT&CK is the Best Defense - Emulating Sophisticated Adversary Malware to Bolster Defenses (20)
Dealing With ATT&CK's Different Levels Of DetailMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Tareq AlKhatib, Lacework, Inc
"ATT&CK serves as the central language for CTI practitioners, Detection Engineers, Red Teamers, and more. Despite the benefit of having a central language, ATT&CK offers different levels of detail that might be useful for one team but not others. This paper points out some of these differences in the level of details available in ATT&CK, especially from the point of view of Detection Engineers, and focused on detection coverage.
In summary, while ATT&CK does not define the Procedure level of the TTP trinity, it is still useful to define the “Degrees of Freedom” an attacker has within a technique. Some techniques only have a limited number of possible Procedures, some techniques might have more, and others might be so open ended that they offer an unlimited number of possible procedures per technique. We examine this concept on both the Technique and Tactic levels and make the argument that techniques that have a high number of possible Procedures cannot be covered by Detection Engineers.
At the conference, we intend to release an ATT&CK Navigator layer to help Detection Engineers quickly filter out which Tactics and Techniques they need to focus on and which ones they simply cannot cover."
Automating testing by implementing ATT&CK using the Blackboard ArchitectureMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Jeremy Straub, NDSU Cybersecurity Institute
This presentation will briefly summarize work that we've done regarding implementing the ATT&CK framework as a rule-fact-action network within a Blackboard Architecture, allowing the ATT&CK framework to enable security testing automation. The presentation will start with a quick summary of the concept behind this and then present a few implementation examples.
I can haz cake: Benefits of working with MITRE on ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Tim Wadhwa-Brown, Cisco
The purpose of this session will be to look at how the linux-malware repo came to take shape and how we've used it to inform our view on adversarial behaviour over the last couple of years. Since the original reason for staring this project was to look at Linux coverage in ATT&CK, we'll play back some of the interesting points and reflect on how they've affected ATT&CK itself.
ATT&CK’s Adoption in CTI: A Great Success (with Room to Grow!)MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Scott Small, Tidal Cyber
This metrics- and meme-based lightning session spotlights the success story that is the CTI industry’s impressive (and expanding) adoption of ATT&CK in their products. Using nearly 6 years’ worth of ATT&CK-mapped, public threat reports collected from government, vendor, & independent sources, we’ll show how the rate (and detail) of mapping has increased considerably, while showcasing (anonymized) examples of high-quality end-products, with the aim of inspiring further ATT&CK adoption in this important corner of the field.
Using ATT&CK to created wicked actors in real dataMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Simeon Kakpovi and Greg Schloemer, KC7 Foundation
"KC7 uses an experiential learning pedagogy to teach cybersecurity analysis to students of all levels, from elementary school all the way to industry professionals. In the KC7 experience, students analyze realistic cybersecurity data and answer a series of CTF-style questions that guide them through an investigative journey.
In order to generate authentic intrusion data, we create a fictional company that is attacked by cyber threat actors. The attributes and behaviors of these actors are defined via yaml configurations that are modeled based on MITRE ATT&CK categories and techniques. For example, we can granularly define what techniques an attacker uses for initial access or lateral movement, and how the actor explicitly uses those techniques.
Students that effectively analyze KC7 intrusion data can map the observed activity to the various stages of the MITRE ATTA&CK framework. Organizing actor definitions around the ATTA&CK framework allows KC7 to create a rich set of intrusion data in various permutations - and ensure that students are exposed to a diverse array of scenarios. A pleasant byproduct of this methodology is that students of MITRE ATT&CK can now study techniques contextually in data rather than just reading about them in reports."
Navigating the Attention Economy – Using MITRE ATT&CK to Communicate to Stake...MITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Alexandrea Berninger, Accenture
We live in a world where attention is scarce. And yet we need to communicate complex information effectively to a variety of audiences. This talk will discuss how to cut through the noise of information overload by using MITRE ATT&CK to reach your audience. It will use lessons I have learned from videography, combined with Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) to weave a story around how to think about communicating to your audience when gaining their focus is becoming increasingly difficult. Using current research into focus and attention spans, combined with trends in how people like to obtain information, this talk will recommend paths to building compelling stories with MITRE ATT&CK so that stakeholders can immediately gain value from threat intelligence reports without having to read a full long-form report.
Discussion on Finding Relationships in Cyber DataMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Stephen Johnson and Emma MacMullan, Capital One
Capital One is currently building a Security Graph to tie together various Cyber Teams and their data -- Controls, Objectives, Tools, and Countermeasures, Threats. It is an ambitious project that will help us identify gaps and focus our controls on the most likely and persistent threats. It is a work in progress that is using MITRE ATT&CK and D3FEND as a "lingua franca" to tie together the elements of the graph, so we have a common understanding across the enterprise.
The art of communicating ATT&CK to the CFOMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Phil Davies, Distilled Security
"You have had a pen test, a red team or a threat intelligence report and drawn up a plan for remediation. You have been told you have 15 mins in front of the CFO in 48 hours! How do you show ,on one page, the connection between the techniques you are exposed and vulnerable to, the path of least resistance and the focused control changes required right now?
How will the CFO get the picture so the result is ""I get it, what do you need?""
Understanding ATT&CK as a practitioner is great with the current matrix but it is inaccessible to the CFO. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Phil will chart the journey to improved visualisation of ATT&CK techniques. He will show how the DNA of ATT&CK doesn’t just make ATT&CK accessible for all but that it can be beautiful!"
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Matthew Mills, Nathaniel Beckstead, and Ryan Simon, Datadog
Cloud native computing has fundamentally changed traditional security methodologies and attack surfaces. This new architectural approach combines new operational tools and services like continuous integration, container engines, and orchestrators. Some organizations struggle to identify and respond to threats they specifically face when running cloud native workloads.
Perimeter-centric security evangelizes defense-in-depth or the onion model to implement different layers of defense. Cloud native security hyper-focuses on four unique layers: Cloud, Clusters, Containers, and Code.
Today's defenders have to look across several existing ATT&CK matrices including Linux Enterprise, Containers, Kubernetes, and IaaS to holistically evaluate and model threats or attack paths across the four distinct layers of cloud native workloads.
In conclusion, we will discuss some of the challenges facing threat modeling cloud native workloads, including showing how to leverage several different ATT&CK matrices to create a distinct Cloud Native Workload ATT&CK matrix. The creation of this matrix will help defenders take the guesswork out of identifying what tactics serve as potential threats against a cloud native workload in order to enhance their defensive baseline and detection coverage.
Or Lenses and Layers: Adding Business Context to Enterprise MappingsMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Andrew Malone
Many use the ATT&CK matrix to map tool coverage across the environment. This blanket coverage is a good baseline but it can miss certain aspects of the enterprise's context like risk levels, organisational priorities, and industry specific threat intelligence. I want to discuss ways to layer these lenses on top of an enterprise mapping to make ATT&CK more relevant to the specific enterprise. If done right this can lead to more actionable metrics and reporting on improvements.
From ATT&CKcon 4.0
By Benjamin Langrill, Security Optimizer
If you tell me an attacker performed OS Credential Dumping, did they dump credentials with meterpreter, recompile mimikatz, or use a custom tool? The technique reference lacks a way to categorize how they performed the action and each type requires its own mitigation. In this talk, Ben Langirll will propose formal adjectives for ATT&CK techniques that map to adversary capabilities and how we can use them to optimize defensive choices.
Threat Modelling - It's not just for developersMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Tim Wadhwa-Brown, Cisco
The purpose of this session will be to look at how you can take public information about threat actors, vulnerabilities, and incidents and use them to build better defenses, utilizing ATT&CK along the way to align your security organization to the people and assets that matter.
Stories are critical to how humans learn, so this session will leverage a story book approach to give the audience some ideas on approaches they could use. Tim will take the audience through 3 real world examples where he has leveraged ATT&CK to drive operational improvement. The premise of each story will be real, although some of the details will be apocryphal to protect the innocent.
One story will focus on defending a network, one will look at adversary detection, while the final one will look at responding to an active attack and in each case, Tim will guide the audience to think about the kinds of data sources that ATT&CK tracks, that they might call upon to achieve a successful outcome.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
