The recent analysis by Forrester on the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations highlights the advancements made in product performance evaluation against real adversary behavior and notes challenges like high alert volumes and lack of alert correlation. The Need for customized evaluation approaches emphasizes the importance of understanding specific user environments to make informed security decisions. Affected: security industry, software vendors
Keypoints :
- Forrester’s analysis provided data-driven insights into the performance of security products against rigorous tests.
- Inclusion of macOS and false positives was recognized as a valuable addition to the evaluations.
- High alert volumes negatively affect data ingestion and alert correlation.
- ATT&CK Evaluations aim to elevate the security industry by focusing on real adversary behaviors.
- Vendors have shown improvement in coverage over time through repeated evaluations.
- Users need personalized insights rather than generic evaluation results to understand tool performance effectively.
- The Tidal Cyber platform provides customized insights into security tools and threat environments.
- Threat-Informed Defense has evolved to help users prioritize security operations based on adversary perspectives.
- Operationalizing Threat-Informed Defense allows for assessing security tool effectiveness in reducing risks.
MITRE Techniques :
- MITRE ATT&CK Coverage – Ensures vendors collect adequate process information and surface ATT&CK context.
- Process Discovery (T1057) – Focused on the collection of command line content and related functional behaviors.
- PowerShell (T1086) – Encouraged detection capabilities for PowerShell scripts and commands.
- Command-Line Interface (T1059.001) – Evaluated vendor adaptations to PowerShell-related challenges from past evaluations.
Indicator of Compromise :
- [Domain] tidalcyber.com
- [Domain] attack.mitre.org
- [Email Address] feedback@forrester.com
- [URL] https://mitre.org
- [IP Address] 192.0.2.1
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