Security News > 2021 > June > MITRE D3FEND: Enabling cybersecurity pros to tailor defenses against specific cyber threats

D3FEND, a framework for cybersecurity professionals to tailor defenses against specific cyber threats is now available through MITRE. NSA funded MITRE's research for D3FEND to improve the cybersecurity of National Security Systems, the Department of Defense, and the Defense Industrial Base.

The D3FEND technical knowledge base of defensive countermeasures for common offensive techniques is complementary to MITRE's ATT&CK, a knowledge base of cyber adversary behavior.

MITRE released D3FEND as a complement to its existing ATT&CK framework, a free, globally-accessible knowledge base of cyber adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations.

MITRE D3FEND provides a model of ways to counter common offensive techniques.

By framing computer network defender complexity of countermeasure functions and techniques as granularly as ATT&CK frames computer network attacker techniques, D3FEND enables cybersecurity professionals to tailor defenses against specific cyber threats, thereby reducing a system's potential attack surface.

Cybersecurity professionals can provide comments to improve and add to the framework by contacting the MITRE D3FEND team.

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