Defending Operational Technology (OT) with ATT&CK

Defending OT with ATT&CK provides a customized collection of MITRE ATT&CK® techniques tailored to the attack surface and threat model for OT environments. The collection of threats contained in the ATT&CK knowledgebase, including historical attacks against OT, are used to define a reference architecture and technology domains of interest for OT. The resultant collection can be used by organizations that use OT to evaluate and employ security controls for real-world adversary behaviors.

This project is created and maintained by MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Center) and is funded by our research participants, in futherance of our mission to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally. This work builds upon the Center’s Defending IaaS with ATT&CK project by using the methodology and tooling created under that project as a basis, and provides another collection of resources cyber defenders can use to understand and make threat-informed decisions for techniques that could be used within an IT/OT hybrid architecture and environment.

Contents

• Overview
  • Background
  • Get Involved
• Reference Architecture
  • Architecture Assets
• Threat Collection
  • Download the Threat Collection
  • Building the Threat Collection
• Threat Model Methodology
  • Step 1. Identify the attack surface
  • Step 2. Compile source information
  • Step 3. Define selection criteria
  • Step 4. Review applicable adversarial techniques
  • Step 5. Build custom threat collection
• Use Cases
  • Users
  • Usage
  • User Stories
• Cyber Tabletop Exercise
  • Conducting the Exercise
  • Defensive Takeaways
  • Offensive Takeaways

Notice

© 2024 MITRE Engenuity. Approved for public release. Document number(s) CT0121.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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