T1590.006 Network Security Appliances Mappings

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's network security appliances that can be used during targeting. Information about network security appliances may include a variety of details, such as the existence and specifics of deployed firewalls, content filters, and proxies/bastion hosts. Adversaries may also target information about victim network-based intrusion detection systems (NIDS) or other appliances related to defensive cybersecurity operations.

Adversaries may gather this information in various ways, such as direct collection actions via Active Scanning or Phishing for Information.(Citation: Nmap Firewalls NIDS) Information about network security appliances may also be exposed to adversaries via online or other accessible data sets (ex: Search Victim-Owned Websites). Gathering this information may reveal opportunities for other forms of reconnaissance (ex: Search Open Technical Databases or Search Open Websites/Domains), establishing operational resources (ex: Develop Capabilities or Obtain Capabilities), and/or initial access (ex: External Remote Services).

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VERIS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
action.hacking.variety.Scan network Enumerating the state of the network related-to T1590.006 Gather Victim Network Information: Network Security Appliances

AWS Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
amazon_virtual_private_cloud Amazon Virtual Private Cloud technique_scores T1590.006 Network Security Appliances
Comments
VPC security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can prevent the gathering of victim network information via (active) scanning methods but is not effective against other methods of gathering victim network information such as via Phishing or online databases (e.g. WHOIS) resulting in a Partial coverage score and an overall Partial score.
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    aws_network_firewall AWS Network Firewall technique_scores T1590.006 Network Security Appliances
    Comments
    AWS Network Firewall has the ability to pass, drop, or alert on traffic based on the network protocol as well as perform deep packet inspection on the payload. This functionality can be used to restrict access to the endpoints within the virtual private cloud and protect against adversaries gathering information about the network. This mapping is given a score of Partial because it only protects against attempts to gather information via scanning that originate from outside the firewall and it does not protect against phishing.
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      aws_security_hub AWS Security Hub technique_scores T1590.006 Network Security Appliances
      Comments
      AWS Security Hub detects improperly secured data from S3 buckets such as public read and write access that may result in an adversary getting access to information that could be used during targeting. AWS Security Hub provides these detections with the following managed insights. S3 buckets with public write or read permissions S3 buckets with sensitive data This is scored as Minimal because S3 only represents one of many available sources of information that an adversary could use for targeting.
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