MITRE Brings Essential Value | ATT&CK
®
BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE:
FREE FRAMEWORK EMPOWERS A GLOBAL
COMMUNITY OF CYBER DEFENDERS
From small organizations to top 10 Fortune 500 companies, MITRE ATT&CK
®
is the global gold standard for turning cyber threat data into a strategic advantage.
Challenge
Anyone with a computer has the
potential to cause damage from behind
their screens; whether it’s the clichéd
lone hacker in their parent’s basement or
highly sophisticated nation-state actors
attempting to disrupt the U.S. power grid.
Motives aside, the number of cyber
attacks of all shapes, sizes, and impact
is skyrocketing. They pose serious risks
to national security, economic stability,
public safety, and trust in essential
services.
In 2023, the FBI received more than
800,000 reports of attacks, with
potential losses estimated at $12.5
billion. The annual average cost of
cybercrime is predicted to hit more than
$23 trillion by 2027, according to studies
by the International Monetary Fund.
As adversaries become increasingly
sophisticated, keeping pace becomes
exponentially more challenging. Picture
“whack-a-mole”—a cybersecurity
team barely getting a handle on one
attack method before another pops up.
Exhaustive defense efforts require time
and resources that many organizations
simply don’t have.
MITRE developed ATT&CK with the
understanding that the complexities
of cybersecurity are best confronted
through collective effort, recognizing
that national resilience is strengthened
when organizations unite to share
knowledge, adapt strategies, and
respond with a unified front.
MITRE’s Solution—
A United Front
ATT&CK is a living encyclopedia of
cyber adversary tactics and techniques
crowdsourced from an ever-growing
global community of contributors.
As stewards of the framework and
content, MITRE collects threat
information, validates and organizes
it, then shares it back to the public
in a digestible, universally understood
language. This comprehensive
repository offers defenders a rubric
for how to recognize, respond to,
and mitigate intrusions.
ATT&CK is free, easily accessible
online, and regularly updated. It’s used
in more than 190 countries on all
seven continents.
MITRE ATT&CK is
used in more than
190 countries on all
seven continents.
