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MITRE named Dana Jackson as senior vice president and general manager, MITRE National Security Sector, where he will serve as a catalyst for accelerating change in how our nation addresses its greatest national security challenges and drive solutions of national impact. He is responsible for the strategic growth and execution of MITRE's national security programs, including support to the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community, including leading the National Security Engineering Center.

MITRE Engenuity will assess commercial cybersecurity products' ability to detect the threat posed by the groups commonly known as Sandworm and Wizard Spider, both of whom have used data encryption as a key element of their attacks. The evaluations will use ATT&CK, a MITRE-curated knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures that is based on published threat reporting.

Phishers tricking users via fake LinkedIn Private Shared DocumentPhishers are trying to trick users into opening a "LinkedIn Private Shared Document" and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. Apple details major security, privacy enhancements in its devicesApple has released on Thursday a newer version of its Platform Security Guide, outlining the security and privacy innovations and improvements its users will be able to take advantage of.

Purdue University and MITRE are combining their expertise and capabilities to form a new public-private partnership focusing on key areas of national safety and security. Purdue will join MITRE as one of its select academic vision partners.

MITRE ATT&CK helps understand attacker behavior. The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a well known and widely used knowledge base of cyber adversary tactics, techniques and procedures, and is based on observations on real-world attacks.

There's a good reason everyone's talking about MITRE ATT&CK: it's an objective, third-party standard with which organizations can measure their own detection coverage, as well as the coverage provided by EDR solutions. Still, even while you appreciate ATT&CK, it's not always clear how you can use it to improve your own organizational security.

MITRE named Gerald Gilbert, Ph.D., a MITRE Fellow to expand MITRE's quantum science initiatives. MITRE Fellows are a select group of preeminent scientists in their fields who lead critically important programs.

Microsoft and MITRE, in collaboration with a dozen other organizations, have developed a framework designed to help identify, respond to, and remediate attacks targeting machine learning systems. The Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, which Microsoft has released in collaboration with MITRE, IBM, NVIDIA, Airbus, Bosch, Deep Instinct, Two Six Labs, Cardiff University, the University of Toronto, PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Berryville Institute of Machine Learning, is an industry-focused open framework that aims to address this issue.

Seasoned cybersecurity pros will be familiar with MITRE. Known for its MITRE ATT&CK framework, MITRE helps develop threat models and defensive methodologies for both the private and public sector cybersecurity communities. MITRE recently added to their portfolio and released MITRE Shield, an active defense knowledge base that captures and organizes security techniques in a way that is complementary to the mitigations featured in MITRE ATT&CK. The MITRE Shield framework focuses on active defense and adversary engagement, which takes the passivity out of network defense.

The MITRE Corporation has taken the wraps off a knowledge base of common techniques and tactics that defenders can use to ensure their networks and assets are kept secure. Called MITRE Shield, the publicly available, free resource is aimed at cyber-experts looking to engage an active cyber defense and, similarly with MITRE ATT&CK, presents a series of active defense concepts.