CSA CCM

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) provides fundamental security principles, controls, and control criteria to guide cloud service providers (CSPs) and cloud service customers (CSCs) to secure, systematically assess, and manage cloud computing environments. This mapping connects this shared security responsibility model (SSRM) of the CSA CCM with threat mitigation of adversary behaviors as described in MITRE ATT&CK. This connection provides a quantifiable demonstration of how these capabilities can provide threat-informed defenses and serve as a foundation for threat-based cyber assessments.

CSA CCM Versions: 4.1 ATT&CK Versions: 17.1 ATT&CK Domain: Enterprise

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Capability Groups

ID Capability Group Name Number of Mappings Number of Capabilities
AIS Application and Interface Security 64 6
BCR Business Continuity Management and Operational Resilience 10 1
CEK Cryptography, Encryption, and Key Management 14 1
DCS Datacenter Security 43 5
DSP Data Security and Privacy Lifecycle Management 77 6
HRS Human Resources 11 1
IAM Identity and Access Management 249 14
IPY Interoperability and Portability 28 2
I&S Infrastructure Security 130 6
LOG Logging and Monitoring 33 4
STA Supply Chain Management, Transparency, and Accountability 11 2
TVM Threat and Vulnerability Management 18 3
UEM Universal Endpoint Management 104 6

All Mappings

Capability ID Capability Description Mapping Type ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Name Notes
STA-16 Supply Chain Data Security Assessment mitigates T1176 Software Extensions
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
STA-16 Supply Chain Data Security Assessment mitigates T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
STA-16 Supply Chain Data Security Assessment mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
STA-16 Supply Chain Data Security Assessment mitigates T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1525 Implant Internal Image
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to: "(c) documentation and testing of the specific technical controls implemented to support the product or service (e.g., identity and access management, network design and security)" "(e) software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" Code Signing can ensure the authenticity and integrity of software by digitally signing executables, scripts, and other code artifacts.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to: "(c) documentation and testing of the specific technical controls implemented to support the product or service (e.g., identity and access management, network design and security)" "(e) software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code on public-facing applications or systems.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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The mitigative applications of this control relate to: "(c) documentation and testing of the specific technical controls implemented to support the product or service (e.g., identity and access management, network design and security)" Network design and security testing (segmentation, secure protocols, egress controls) limit an adversary’s ability to move laterally or exfiltrate via compromised software components through SMB and RDP as well as applications that may be used within internal networks such as MySQL and web server services.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1176 Software Extensions
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code from known installed software extensions on endpoints.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
Comments
The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
AIS-08 API Security mitigates T1204 User Execution
Comments
This control implements measures to secure APIs. Using application control and monitoring for and blocking malicious API calls can help prevent user execution of malware via APIs in cloud consoles.
AIS-08 API Security mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Comments
This control implements measures to secure APIs. Using application control and monitoring for and blocking malicious API calls can help prevent adversaries from abusing APIs to execute malicious commands.
AIS-08 API Security mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
Comments
This control implements measures to secure APIs. Using application control and monitoring for and blocking malicious API calls can help prevent adversaries from abusing cloud APIs to execute malicious commands.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1491.002 External Defacement
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1531 Account Access Removal
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.002 Bandwidth Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.001 Compute Hijacking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496.004 Cloud Service Hijacking
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1496 Resource Hijacking
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1074.002 Remote Data Staging
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1535 Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1564 Hide Artifacts
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1070.008 Clear Mailbox Data
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1136 Create Account
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.005 Device Registration
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.002 Additional Email Delegate Permissions
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1651 Cloud Administration Command
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1204.003 Malicious Image
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1610 Deploy Container
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
Comments
This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.004 Revert Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.002 Create Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.001 Create Snapshot
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.003 Delete Cloud Instance
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1602 Data from Configuration Repository
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1552.007 Container API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578.005 Modify Cloud Compute Configurations
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1671 Cloud Application Integration
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-16 Authorization Mechanisms mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce formal approval processes for user access, implement dynamic and explicit authorization mechanisms. The guidance focuses on implementing technical measures to verify authorization and prevent unauthorized access and execution.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110 Brute Force
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.003 Password Spraying
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.001 Password Guessing
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1110.002 Password Cracking
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552.001 Credentials In Files
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.003 Credentials from Web Browsers
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-15 Passwords Management mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce strong password management practices to protect authentication credentials and reduce the risk of unauthorized access. For example, credential access protection mitigation focuses on implementing measures to prevent adversaries from obtaining credentials, such as passwords, hashes, tokens, or keys, that could be used for unauthorized access.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.005 Device Registration
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.002 Domain Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-14 Strong Authentication mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all non-console administrative, remote, sensitive data, and third-party access, implement secure centralized authentication systems and digital certificates, protect credentials, monitor authentication activity, and ensure strong, risk-based authentication measures are consistently applied and reviewed.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1564.002 Hidden Users
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1036.010 Masquerade Account Name
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1036 Masquerading
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1585.003 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1087.004 Cloud Account
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1586.003 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-13 Uniquely Identifiable Users mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently assign unique, cryptographically secure identifiers to users, ensure traceability and accountability for all access, including shared accounts, implement strong access controls, encryption for user identity data. These techniques focus on mitigating attacker techniques against user services or machine accounts within cloud environments or identity management system.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-11 CSCs Approval for Agreed Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to collaboratively identify high-risk data and privileged roles, enforce formal CSC approval workflows for CSP user access, use secure PAM systems, and implement comprehensive monitoring and reporting to ensure privileged access to sensitive CSC data is tightly controlled and traceable. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-10 Management of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage privileged access by enforcing time-bound approvals, formal request and justification processes, automated revocation, session restrictions, credential vaulting and rotation, continuous monitoring, and periodic reviews, ensuring privileged access is tightly controlled, monitored, and limited to only what is necessary for specific roles and timeframes. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.003 Local Accounts
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-09 Segregation of Privileged Access Roles mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control describes the periodic, risk-based, and reviews of privileged accounts and high-risk access configurations, ensuring these are accounts are managed and scrutinized to prevent unauthorized access or excessive privileges. Privileged Account Management focuses on implementing policies, controls, and tools to securely manage privileged accounts (e.g., SYSTEM, root, or administrative accounts). This includes restricting access, limiting the scope of permissions, monitoring privileged account usage, and ensuring accountability through logging and auditing.This mitigation can be implemented through account permissions and roles, PAM solutions, or just-In-Time access.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform automated reviews of all cloud and container accounts to ensure that they are necessary and that the permissions granted to them are appropriate.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, ensure only authorized keys are allowed access to critical resources and perform automated reviews of access lists regularly.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform automated reviews of all cloud and container accounts to ensure that they are necessary and that the permissions granted to them are appropriate.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, administrators should perform an automated review of all access lists and the permissions they have been granted to access web applications and services. This should be done extensively on all resources in order to establish a baseline, followed up on with periodic audits of new or updated resources. Suspicious accounts/credentials should be investigated and removed.
IAM-08 User Access Review mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the periodic review and validation of user access by centralizing access management, automating review processes, and continuously monitoring for unauthorized activities. These mitigative actions ensure that access rights remain appropriate, obsolete or excessive privileges are removed, and potential security access risks are promptly identified and mitigated. For this technique, conduct automated permissions reviewing on cloud storage to ensure proper permissions are set to deny open or unprivileged access to resources.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1505 Server Software Component
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.004 SSH
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484.001 Group Policy Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1484 Domain or Tenant Policy Modification
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.004 Customer Relationship Management Software
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.002 Sharepoint
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213.001 Confluence
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
IAM-06 User Access Provisioning mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes the implementation of a secure and controlled user access provisioning process. Proper user account management reduces the attack surface by limiting unauthorized access to data, assets, and systems. Managing account access authorizations can reduce the risk of privilege escalation by ensuring accounts cannot perform unauthorized actions.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1204 User Execution
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Application controls can help prevent the running of executables masquerading as other files.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Application controls to block unknown programs can limit adversaries from adding content to shared storage locations.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Use of application control, especially regarding the execution of tools outside of security policies, and ensuring that only approved security applications are used can prevent adversaries from maliciously modifying an environment to hinder or disable security tools.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Use of application control, especially regarding the execution of tools outside of security policies, and ensuring that only approved security applications are used can prevent adversaries from maliciously modifying an environment to hinder or disable defensive mechanisms.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Use of application control and disabling or removing any unnecessary or unused shells or interpreters can mitigate adversary use of cloud APIs to execute malicious commands.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Use of application control and disabling or removing any unnecessary or unused shells or interpreters can mitigate adversary use of command and script interpreters to execute malicious commands.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Restricting access to sensitive sensitive data such as Cloud Formation templates and preventing a user's command history from being stored can prevent adversaries from obtaining insecurely stored credentials.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Restricting access to cloud resources and APIs can reduce the risk of adversaries modifying authentication mechanisms and processes to access user credentials or enable otherwise unwarranted access to accounts.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Implement application controls and technical controls to prevent adversaries from disabling versioning and backup policies and deleting files involved in disaster recovery scenarios.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Configuring access to critical servers and systems used to create and manage accounts can prevent adversaries from creating accounts.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Configuring access to critical servers by limiting unnecessary protocols and services and removing unnecessary and potentially abusable authentication and authorization mechanisms can mitigate account manipulation.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Secure system settings can help prevent adversaries from circumventing mechanisms designed to control elevate privileges and gain higher-level permissions. Performing regular software updates also mitigates exploitation risk.
I&S-04 OS Hardening and Base Controls mitigates T1087 Account Discovery
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This control implements secure configuration best practices for hardening cloud platforms to mitigate adversary exploitation and abuse of system functionality. Preventing accounts from being enumerated and limiting accessible interfaces to obtain user lists can prevent adversaries from identifying valid email addresses and account names.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1040 Network Sniffing
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Ensuring that all traffic is encrypted, using best practices for authentication protocols, and protecting web traffic with SSL/TLS can help prevent and adversary from capturing information, such as user credentials and network characteristics, through network sniffing.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1008 Fallback Channels
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1008 Fallback Channels
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to restrict external network access and mitigate adversary use of fallback or alternative communication channels.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1090.002 External Proxy
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1090.001 Internal Proxy
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1090 Proxy
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1572 Protocol Tunneling
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring firewalls to filter network traffic to untrusted domains or hosts can prevent encapsulating a protocol within another protocol for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and unexpected protocol standards or traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Filtering network traffic to prevent use of protocols across the network boundary that are unnecessary can prevent the use of an OSI non-application layer protocol for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and uncommon patterns or flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1219 Remote Access Tools
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Firewalls and proxies can be configured to limit outgoing traffic to sites and services used by remote access software. In addition, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures may be able to prevent traffic to remote access services. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can also be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate abuse of remote access tools.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1046 Network Service Discovery
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. This includes ensuring that unnecessary ports and services are closed to prevent risk of discovery and potential exploitation. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to detect and prevent remote service scans.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unusual data transfer over known tools and protocols can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate the transfer of tools or other files.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1029 Scheduled Transfer
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for adversary command and control infrastructure, unexpected network connections or traffic, and malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1132.001 Standard Encoding
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1571 Non-Standard Port
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports for that particular network segment can prevent the use of a protocol and port pairing that are typically not associated for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and unexpected patterns or protocols can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1048.001 Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring access controls, network firewalls, and IP-based restrictions for accessing cloud resources helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring access controls, network firewalls, and IP-based restrictions for accessing cloud resources helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring access controls, network firewalls, and IP-based restrictions for accessing cloud resources helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1132 Data Encoding
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1602.001 SNMP (MIB Dump)
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring SNMPv3 to use the highest level of security (authPriv) available and applying extended ACLs to block unauthorized protocols outside the trusted network can protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1602 Data from Configuration Repository
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring SNMPv3 to use the highest level of security (authPriv) available and applying extended ACLs to block unauthorized protocols outside the trusted network can protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1104 Multi-Stage Channels
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring access controls, network firewalls, and IP-based restrictions for accessing cloud resources helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071 Application Layer Protocol
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of OSI application layer protocols to embed commands.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071.004 DNS
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of the Domain Name System (DNS) application layer protocol to embed commands.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071.003 Mail Protocols
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with electronic mail delivery to embed commands.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071.002 File Transfer Protocols
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with transferring files to embed commands.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071.001 Web Protocols
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with web traffic to embed commands.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1132.002 Non-Standard Encoding
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that can identify traffic patterns indicative of AiTM activity can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Ensure that all traffic is encrypted appropriately to mitigate, or at least alleviate, the scope of AiTM activity. Network appliances and security software can be used to block network traffic that is not necessary within the environment, such as legacy protocols that may be leveraged for AiTM conditions.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1602.002 Network Device Configuration Dump
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Configuring SNMPv3 to use the highest level of security (authPriv) available and applying extended ACLs to block unauthorized protocols outside the trusted network can protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-03 Network Security mitigates T1071.005 Publish/Subscribe Protocols
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This control provides for monitoring, encrypting, and restricting communications between environments. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) application layer protocols to embed commands.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Configuring firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports and through proper network gateway systems and also ensuring hosts are only provisioned to communicate over authorized interfaces can prevent the use of an OSI non-application layer protocol for communication.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Restricting access to domain controllers and systems used for account creation and management through access controls, firewalls, and separate VPC instances mitigates the ability of adversaries to create unauthorized accounts.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1046 Network Service Discovery
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to protect critical servers and devices from discovery and exploitation. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to detect and prevent remote service scans.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Network proxies, gateways, and firewalls can be used to deny direct remote access to internal systems.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to isolate infrastructure components that do not require broad network access, limiting attacks that leverage trusted relationships.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). If an application is hosted on cloud-based infrastructure, VPC security perimeters can segment resources to further reduce access and operate in logically separate environments, limiting exposure.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1571 Non-Standard Port
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Configuring firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports for that particular network segment can prevent the use of a protocol and port pairing that are typically not associated for communication.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1048.001 Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1602.001 SNMP (MIB Dump)
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1602 Data from Configuration Repository
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Restricting access to domain controllers and systems used for account creation and management through access controls, firewalls, and separate VPC instances mitigates the ability of adversaries to create unauthorized accounts.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1040 Network Sniffing
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Segmentation can be implemented to deny direct access of broadcasts and multicast sniffing, and prevent information capture.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to filter traffic based on security rules. Limiting access to critical systems and domain controllers can mitigate adversary use of account manipulation to maintain and/or elevate access to systems.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Network segmentation can be used to isolate infrastructure components that do not require broad network access. This may mitigate, or at least alleviate, the scope of AiTM activity.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1602.002 Network Device Configuration Dump
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to filter traffic based on security rules. Limiting access to critical systems and domain controllers can mitigate adversary use of account manipulation to maintain and/or elevate access to systems.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Isolation of critical network systems through use of cloud-based segmentation, virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups, network access control lists (NACLs), and firewalls can mitigate abuse of centralized software suites.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. This includes using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Segmenting networks and systems reduces access to critical systems and services, mitigating exploitation via remote services.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1090 Proxy
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1572 Protocol Tunneling
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Configuring firewalls to filter network traffic to untrusted domains or hosts can prevent encapsulating a protocol within another protocol for communication.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1090.001 Internal Proxy
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate the transfer of tools or other files.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1090.002 External Proxy
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-06 Segmentation and Segregation mitigates T1219 Remote Access Tools
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This control provides for appropriately segmented and segregated cloud environments. Firewalls and proxies can be configured to limit outgoing traffic to sites and services used by remote access software. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can also be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate abuse of remote access tools.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. When possible, keys should be stored on separate cryptographic hardware instead of on the local system.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. When possible, keys should be stored on separate cryptographic hardware instead of on the local system.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1649 Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. Ensuring certificates as well as associated private keys are appropriately secured and enforcing HTTPS can help prevent adversaries from stealing or forging certificates used for authentication.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption and off-system storage of sensitive information ensures the confidentiality of data and can help to mitigate adversary use of automated techniques for automatically collecting data and files.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encrypting data stored at rest in information repositories ensures the confidentiality of data and can mitigate adversary access to information of value, such as sensitive documents or data that may aid their further objectives.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encrypting data stored at rest in cloud storage can mitigate adversary access to data from cloud storage.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1204 User Execution
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Malicious executables can be prevented from running by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Malicious modification or disabling of security tools can be mitigated by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. The execution of unauthorized or malicious code on systems through abuse of command and script interpreters can be prevented by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. The execution of unauthorized or malicious code on systems through abuse of command and script interpreters can be prevented by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits to taint content in shared storage locations.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits to bypass security features.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits of public-facing applications.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Malicious modification of preventative defenses and detection capabilities can be mitigated by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Proper security configurations, limited system access, and application control can help mitigate the risk of adversaries deleting or removing built-in data and turning off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Proper security configurations and limited system access can help prevent adversaries from creating accounts to maintain access.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Proper security configurations and limited system access can help prevent adversaries from manipulating accounts to maintain and/or elevate access.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1087 Account Discovery
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Adjusting access to user lists can prevent abuse of system functionality and help prevent adversaries from getting a listing of valid accounts or usernames.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Adjusting system settings and hardening default configurations can mitigate adversary exploitation of elevation control mechanisms and prevent abuse of system functionality.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1550.004 Web Session Cookie
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web cookies to help mitigate the risk of adversaries using stolen session cookies.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1535 Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Cloud service providers may allow customers to deactivate unused regions to help mitigate the risk of adversaries creating resources in unused regions.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Configuring appropriate data sharing restrictions in cloud services can help mitigate the risk of adversaries exfiltrating data by transferring.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Securing resource groups and limiting permissions can help mitigate the risk of adversaries adding, deleting, or otherwise modifying hierarchical structures.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Preventing insecure connections and ensuring proper permissions can help mitigate the risk of adversaries hindering or disabling preventative defenses.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1606.001 Web Cookies
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web credentials and limiting privileges can help mitigate the risk of adversaries generating and using forged web cookies.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1213.004 Customer Relationship Management Software
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Effectively securing information repositories and enforcing robust data retention policies can mitigate the risk of adversaries exploiting information repositories to access sensitive or valuable information.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web credentials and limiting privileges can help mitigate the risk of adversaries generating and using forged web credentials.
UEM-05 Endpoint Management mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for endpoint management. Effectively securing information repositories and enforcing robust data retention policies can mitigate the risk of adversaries exploiting information repositories to access sensitive or valuable information.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1590.002 DNS
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1205.002 Socket Filters
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1205.001 Port Knocking
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1205 Traffic Signaling
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1219.002 Remote Desktop Software
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1219 Remote Access Tools
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1090 Proxy
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1572 Protocol Tunneling
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1071.005 Publish/Subscribe Protocols
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1071 Application Layer Protocol
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1498 Network Denial of Service
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1498.002 Reflection Amplification
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1498.001 Direct Network Flood
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1070.009 Clear Persistence
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1070.007 Clear Network Connection History and Configurations
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1070.007 Clear Network Connection History and Configurations
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1562.004 Disable or Modify System Firewall
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-10 Software Firewall mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control describes how CSPs and CSCs must install, update, and properly configure endpoint and software-defined firewalls, regularly review and approve firewall rule changes, and monitor traffic for anomalies and malicious code. These mitigative actions help prevent unauthorized access, block threats, and ensure only approved firewall rules are active.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1221 Template Injection
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1204 User Execution
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1543 Create or Modify System Process
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1564 Hide Artifacts
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1221 Template Injection
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1036 Masquerading
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1059.006 Python
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1059.005 Visual Basic
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1059.001 PowerShell
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1092 Communication Through Removable Media
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1091 Replication Through Removable Media
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
UEM-09 Anti-Malware Detection and Prevention mitigates T1025 Data from Removable Media
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This control describes the implementation of endpoint security, including anti-malware software, to mitigate the risk of exploitation by threat actors. The implementation guidance provides several examples of that the technical measures under Anti-Malware should aid with preventing which include: Scan installed software and system data content to identify and remove unauthorized code/software. Prohibit the use of installation of unauthorized software. Restricting on obtaining malicious data and software from external networks. Endpoint removable media management.
TVM-07 Penetration Testing mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to conduct regular penetration testing using reputable third parties for overall testing processes and communication of results within agreed boundaries. The control guidance states that the penetration testing should be used to identify critical vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of security controls, validate compliance with industry standards, in order to provide recommendations for remediation and security improvements in cloud environments. The mapping for TVM-07 Penetration Testing will be aligned with the M1016 Vulnerability Scanning mitigation definition of using "automated or manual assessment of systems, applications, and networks to identify misconfigurations, unpatched software, or other security weaknesses." Penetration testing in this context can take the form of Cloud Environment Scanning, use application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools, and the use of any red team cloud tools (Pacu, StormSpotter) to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses for exploitation and impact.
TVM-07 Penetration Testing mitigates T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to conduct regular penetration testing using reputable third parties for overall testing processes and communication of results within agreed boundaries. The control guidance states that the penetration testing should be used to identify critical vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of security controls, validate compliance with industry standards, in order to provide recommendations for remediation and security improvements in cloud environments. The mapping for TVM-07 Penetration Testing will be aligned with the M1016 Vulnerability Scanning mitigation definition of using "automated or manual assessment of systems, applications, and networks to identify misconfigurations, unpatched software, or other security weaknesses." Penetration testing in this context can take the form of Cloud Environment Scanning, use application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools, and the use of any red team cloud tools (Pacu, StormSpotter) to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses for exploitation and impact.
TVM-07 Penetration Testing mitigates T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to conduct regular penetration testing using reputable third parties for overall testing processes and communication of results within agreed boundaries. The control guidance states that the penetration testing should be used to identify critical vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of security controls, validate compliance with industry standards, in order to provide recommendations for remediation and security improvements in cloud environments. The mapping for TVM-07 Penetration Testing will be aligned with the M1016 Vulnerability Scanning mitigation definition of using "automated or manual assessment of systems, applications, and networks to identify misconfigurations, unpatched software, or other security weaknesses." Penetration testing in this context can take the form of Cloud Environment Scanning, use application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools, and the use of any red team cloud tools (Pacu, StormSpotter) to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses for exploitation and impact.
TVM-07 Penetration Testing mitigates T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to conduct regular penetration testing using reputable third parties for overall testing processes and communication of results within agreed boundaries. The control guidance states that the penetration testing should be used to identify critical vulnerabilities, assess the effectiveness of security controls, validate compliance with industry standards, in order to provide recommendations for remediation and security improvements in cloud environments. The mapping for TVM-07 Penetration Testing will be aligned with the M1016 Vulnerability Scanning mitigation definition of using "automated or manual assessment of systems, applications, and networks to identify misconfigurations, unpatched software, or other security weaknesses." Penetration testing in this context can take the form of Cloud Environment Scanning, use application security testing (SAST/DAST) tools, and the use of any red team cloud tools (Pacu, StormSpotter) to detect vulnerabilities and weaknesses for exploitation and impact.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1574.001 DLL
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities. For this specific technique, leveraging the program sxstrace.exe that is included with Windows along with manual inspection, to check manifest files for side-loading vulnerabilities in software with the use of vulnerable DLLs.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities. For this specific technique, leveraging the program sxstrace.exe that is included with Windows along with manual inspection, to check manifest files for side-loading vulnerabilities in software with the use of vulnerable DLLs.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1176 Software Extensions
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1204.003 Malicious Image
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1525 Implant Internal Image
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-06 External Library Vulnerabilities mitigates T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently manage third-party and open-source libraries by maintaining accurate inventories, integrating with vulnerability databases, automating patching and updates, using dependency and scanning tools to mitigate risks from library vulnerabilities.
TVM-05 Detection Updates mitigates T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently define, implement, and regularly update detection tools, threat signatures, and indicators of compromise based from a threat intelligence platform/program ensuring effective and timely detection of threats across all cloud service models. A centralized threat intelligence platform or program enables organizations to proactively identify, analyze, and act on cyber threats by leveraging internal and external data sources. As it applies to mitigable techniques, developing a robust cyber threat intelligence capability to mitigate and determine what types and levels of threat may use software exploits and 0-days or N-days against a particular organization. For the impersonation, threat intelligence helps defenders and users be aware of and defend against common lures and active campaigns that have been used for impersonation.
TVM-05 Detection Updates mitigates T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently define, implement, and regularly update detection tools, threat signatures, and indicators of compromise based from a threat intelligence platform/program ensuring effective and timely detection of threats across all cloud service models. A centralized threat intelligence platform or program enables organizations to proactively identify, analyze, and act on cyber threats by leveraging internal and external data sources. As it applies to mitigable techniques, developing a robust cyber threat intelligence capability to mitigate and determine what types and levels of threat may use software exploits and 0-days or N-days against a particular organization. For the impersonation, threat intelligence helps defenders and users be aware of and defend against common lures and active campaigns that have been used for impersonation.
TVM-05 Detection Updates mitigates T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently define, implement, and regularly update detection tools, threat signatures, and indicators of compromise based from a threat intelligence platform/program ensuring effective and timely detection of threats across all cloud service models. A centralized threat intelligence platform or program enables organizations to proactively identify, analyze, and act on cyber threats by leveraging internal and external data sources. As it applies to mitigable techniques, developing a robust cyber threat intelligence capability to mitigate and determine what types and levels of threat may use software exploits and 0-days or N-days against a particular organization. For the impersonation, threat intelligence helps defenders and users be aware of and defend against common lures and active campaigns that have been used for impersonation.
TVM-05 Detection Updates mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently define, implement, and regularly update detection tools, threat signatures, and indicators of compromise based from a threat intelligence platform/program ensuring effective and timely detection of threats across all cloud service models. A centralized threat intelligence platform or program enables organizations to proactively identify, analyze, and act on cyber threats by leveraging internal and external data sources. As it applies to mitigable techniques, developing a robust cyber threat intelligence capability to mitigate and determine what types and levels of threat may use software exploits and 0-days or N-days against a particular organization.
TVM-05 Detection Updates mitigates T1656 Impersonation
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently define, implement, and regularly update detection tools, threat signatures, and indicators of compromise based from a threat intelligence platform/program ensuring effective and timely detection of threats across all cloud service models. A centralized threat intelligence platform or program enables organizations to proactively identify, analyze, and act on cyber threats by leveraging internal and external data sources. As it applies to mitigable techniques, developing a robust cyber threat intelligence capability to mitigate and determine what types and levels of threat may use software exploits and 0-days or N-days against a particular organization. For the impersonation, threat intelligence helps defenders and users be aware of and defend against common lures and active campaigns that have been used for impersonation.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562.002 Disable Windows Event Logging
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1070.002 Clear Linux or Mac System Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562.012 Disable or Modify Linux Audit System
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-10 Audit Records Protection mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect audit logs by enforcing strict access controls, encryption, isolated log environments, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, and so forth for investigations or legal proceedings.
LOG-08 Audit Logs Sanitization mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control requires organizations to implement technical measures that automatically detect and remove sensitive data from logs to prevent unauthorized exposure. Log Sanitization may help mitigate risks from Unsecured Credentials (T1552), where attackers target logs for sensitive information such as credentials or access tokens.
LOG-08 Audit Logs Sanitization mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires organizations to implement technical measures that automatically detect and remove sensitive data from logs to prevent unauthorized exposure. Log Sanitization may help mitigate risks from Unsecured Credentials (T1552), where attackers target logs for sensitive information such as credentials or access tokens.
LOG-08 Audit Logs Sanitization mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires organizations to implement technical measures that automatically detect and remove sensitive data from logs to prevent unauthorized exposure. Data from Information Repositories (T1213) can occur if logs containing sensitive data are accessed or exfiltrated.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1562.012 Disable or Modify Linux Audit System
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1070.002 Clear Linux or Mac System Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1562.002 Disable Windows Event Logging
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-04 Audit Logs Access and Accountability mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to restrict audit log access using RBAC, MFA, least privilege, and separation of duties, so that only authorized personnel can access sensitive logs and any access is traceable and secure. These set of controls are in place to ensure that proper user permissions are in place to prevent adversaries from disabling or interfering with security/logging services.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1070.009 Clear Persistence
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1070.007 Clear Network Connection History and Configurations
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562.012 Disable or Modify Linux Audit System
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1070.001 Clear Windows Event Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1070.002 Clear Linux or Mac System Logs
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562.002 Disable Windows Event Logging
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
LOG-02 Audit Logs Protection mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control requires both CSP and CSC to independently protect and retain audit logs by implementing controls such as, centralized logging, secure and tamper-evident storage, access restrictions, regular monitoring and review ensuring logs remain available and trustworthy for investigations and protected against any improper modification and tampering.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1008 Fallback Channels
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to restrict external network access and mitigate adversary use of fallback or alternative communication channels.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Isolation of critical network systems through use of cloud-based segmentation, virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups, network access control lists (NACLs), and firewalls can mitigate abuse of centralized software suites.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Segmenting networks and systems reduces access to critical systems and services, mitigating exploitation via remote services.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1090.002 External Proxy
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1090.001 Internal Proxy
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1090 Proxy
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unexpected protocol standards and traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate use of a connection proxy for communications.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1572 Protocol Tunneling
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Configuring firewalls to filter network traffic to untrusted domains or hosts can prevent encapsulating a protocol within another protocol for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and unexpected protocol standards or traffic flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Configuring firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports and through proper network gateway systems and also ensuring hosts are only provisioned to communicate over authorized interfaces can prevent the use of an OSI non-application layer protocol for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and uncommon patterns or flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1219 Remote Access Tools
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Firewalls and proxies can be configured to limit outgoing traffic to sites and services used by remote access software. In addition, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures may be able to prevent traffic to remote access services. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can also be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate abuse of remote access tools.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Restricting access to domain controllers and systems used for account creation and management through access controls, firewalls, and separate VPC instances mitigates the ability of adversaries to create unauthorized accounts.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1046 Network Service Discovery
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to protect critical servers and devices from discovery and exploitation. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to detect and prevent remote service scans.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Network proxies, gateways, and firewalls can be used to deny direct remote access to internal systems.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1570 Lateral Tool Transfer
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or unusual data transfer over known tools and protocols can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to limit traffic between systems and mitigate the transfer of tools or other files.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1029 Scheduled Transfer
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for adversary command and control infrastructure, unexpected network connections or traffic, and malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1132.001 Standard Encoding
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Virtual private cloud (VPC) security groups and network access control lists (NACLs) can be used to isolate infrastructure components that do not require broad network access, limiting attacks that leverage trusted relationships.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). If an application is hosted on cloud-based infrastructure, VPC security perimeters can segment resources to further reduce access and operate in logically separate environments, limiting exposure.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1571 Non-Standard Port
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Configuring firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports for that particular network segment can prevent the use of a protocol and port pairing that are typically not associated for communication. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary malware and unexpected patterns or protocols can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1048.001 Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1132 Data Encoding
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1602.001 SNMP (MIB Dump)
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1602 Data from Configuration Repository
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Restricting access to domain controllers and systems used for account creation and management through access controls, firewalls, and separate VPC instances mitigates the ability of adversaries to create unauthorized accounts.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1104 Multi-Stage Channels
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Configuring access controls and network firewalls to enforce restrictions on accessing cloud resources, while allowing only essential ports and traffic, helps mitigate the risk of alternative exfiltration through cloud services. Also, network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific adversary command and control infrastructure and malware can be used to mitigate exfiltration activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071 Application Layer Protocol
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of OSI application layer protocols to embed commands.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1040 Network Sniffing
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level). Segmentation can be implemented to deny direct access of broadcasts and multicast sniffing, and prevent information capture.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to filter traffic based on security rules. Limiting access to critical systems and domain controllers can mitigate adversary use of account manipulation to maintain and/or elevate access to systems.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071.004 DNS
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of the Domain Name System (DNS) application layer protocol to embed commands.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071.003 Mail Protocols
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with electronic mail delivery to embed commands.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071.002 File Transfer Protocols
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with transferring files to embed commands.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071.001 Web Protocols
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of application layer protocols associated with web traffic to embed commands.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1132.002 Non-Standard Encoding
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware or uncommon data flows can be used to mitigate activity at the network level.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that can identify traffic patterns indicative of AiTM activity can be used to mitigate activity at the network level. Network segmentation can be used to isolate infrastructure components that do not require broad network access. This may mitigate, or at least alleviate, the scope of AiTM activity.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1602.002 Network Device Configuration Dump
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Access controls, firewalls, and cloud-based segmentation can be used to isolate and protect configuration repositories. In addition, network intrusion prevention devices can be configured to block SNMP queries and commands from unauthorized sources.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. This includes implementing access controls and firewalls and using cloud-based segmentation at each layer of the cloud network (virtual private cloud [VPC], subnet, and application level) to filter traffic based on security rules. Limiting access to critical systems and domain controllers can mitigate adversary use of account manipulation to maintain and/or elevate access to systems.
I&S-09 Network Defense mitigates T1071.005 Publish/Subscribe Protocols
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This control provides for the implementation of defense-in-depth network security controls for securing the cloud environment. Network intrusion detection and prevention systems that use network signatures to identify traffic for specific malware can be used to mitigate activity at the network level, such as adversary use of publish/subscribe (pub/sub) application layer protocols to embed commands.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data and can mitigate adversary access to information of value, such as sensitive documents or data that may aid their further objectives.
I&S-05 Production and Non-Production Environments mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control maintains separation of production and non-production environments, which can prevent the introduction of exploitable weaknesses and avoid exposure of sensitive information. Ensure that production environments do not store sensitive data or credentials insecurely (e.g. plaintext credentials in code, published credentials in repositories, or credentials in public cloud storage) to mitigate adversaries from obtaining credentials of existing accounts.
I&S-05 Production and Non-Production Environments mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control maintains separation of production and non-production environments, which can prevent the introduction of exploitable weaknesses and avoid exposure of sensitive information. Restricting the use of authentication material outside of expected contexts can help prevent adversary misuse of alternate authentication material.
I&S-05 Production and Non-Production Environments mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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This control maintains separation of production and non-production environments, which can prevent the introduction of exploitable weaknesses and avoid exposure of sensitive information. Restricting the use of authentication material outside of expected contexts can help prevent adversary misuse of alternate authentication material.
I&S-05 Production and Non-Production Environments mitigates T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
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This control maintains separation of production and non-production environments, which can prevent the introduction of exploitable weaknesses and avoid exposure of sensitive information. During development, apply caution when selecting third-party libraries to integrate into applications and, where possible, lock software dependencies to specific versions rather than pulling the latest version on build to help mitigate supply chain compromise.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, such as OAuth access tokens used in a cloud-based email service. File encryption across email communications containing sensitive information that may be obtained through access to email services can help prevent adversaries from stealing application access tokens.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1557.002 ARP Cache Poisoning
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can safeguard ARP traffic and mitigate adversary use of ARP cache poisoning.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1649 Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important data flows reduces the impact of adversary tailored data modifications.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1020.001 Traffic Duplication
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can mitigate adversary abuse of traffic mirroring for redirection of network traffic and automated data exfiltration.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data and can help to mitigate adversary use of automated techniques for automatically collecting data and files.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can safeguard data and mitigate adversary-in-the-middle activities such as information collection.
I&S-07 Migration to Cloud Environments mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control provides for the use of secure and encrypted communication channels when migrating to cloud environments. Encrypting data at all stages, from storage to transmission, ensures the confidentiality of data and can mitigate adversary access to information of value in cloud storage.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1052.001 Exfiltration over USB
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This control can help prevent adversaries attempting to exfiltrate data via a USB connected physical device, through mechanisms such as automatic screen locking and automatic session logout.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, such as OAuth access tokens used in a cloud-based email service. File encryption across email communications containing sensitive information that may be obtained through access to email services can help prevent adversaries from stealing application access tokens.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1557.002 ARP Cache Poisoning
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can safeguard ARP traffic and mitigate adversary use of ARP cache poisoning.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1561.001 Disk Content Wipe
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Adversaries may wipe, overwrite, or corrupt arbitrary portions of disk content on cloud storage objects or other cloud resources. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from disk wipe attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1561.002 Disk Structure Wipe
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Adversaries may wipe or corrupt disk data structures or overwrite critical data in disk structures on cloud storage objects or other cloud resources. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from disk wipe attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1491.001 Internal Defacement
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Adversaries may deface visual content through modifying data and files in cloud storage objects, including website files. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from defacement attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1491.002 External Defacement
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Adversaries may deface visual content through modifying data and files in cloud storage objects, including website files. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from defacement attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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Adversaries may destroy, overwrite, or delete data and files in cloud storage buckets. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from data destruction attacks.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1669 Wi-Fi Networks
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Ensuring that cloud-managed Wi-Fi or cloud-based networking traffic is encrypted appropriately can mitigate adversary exploitation of Wi-Fi networks.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. When possible, keys should be stored on separate cryptographic hardware instead of on the local system.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. When possible, keys should be stored on separate cryptographic hardware instead of on the local system.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1649 Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality of data such as credentials, preventing unauthorized access. Ensuring certificates as well as associated private keys are appropriately secured and enforcing HTTPS can help prevent adversaries from stealing or forging certificates used for authentication.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important data flows reduces the impact of adversary tailored data modifications.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Encrypting important information reduces an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1020.001 Traffic Duplication
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can mitigate adversary abuse of traffic mirroring for redirection of network traffic and automated data exfiltration.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest and data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption and off-system storage of sensitive information ensures the confidentiality of data and can help to mitigate adversary use of automated techniques for automatically collecting data and files.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-in-transit within the cloud environment. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. Ensuring that all wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately can safeguard data and mitigate adversary-in-the-middle activities such as information collection.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control provides cryptographic protection for data-at-rest within the cloud environment. Encrypting data stored at rest in information repositories ensures the confidentiality of data and can mitigate adversary access to information of value, such as sensitive documents or data that may aid their further objectives.
CEK-03 Data Encryption mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control provides mechanisms for encryption of at-rest data, and for managing encryption keys securely, ensuring they are regularly rotated and not exposed to unauthorized parties. Encrypting data stored at rest in cloud storage and rotating managed encryption keys can mitigate adversary access to data from cloud storage.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
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Adversaries may encrypt data and files in cloud storage objects within compromised accounts and other cloud resources to render stored data inaccessible. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from data encryption attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1491 Defacement
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Adversaries may deface visual content through modifying data and files in cloud storage objects, including website files. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from defacement attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1561 Disk Wipe
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Adversaries may wipe, overwrite, or corrupt raw disk data on cloud storage objects or other cloud resources. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from disk wipe attacks.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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Adversaries may delete or remove built-in data and turn off services designed to aid in recovery, disable versioning and backup policies and delete snapshots, database backups, machine images, and prior versions of objects designed to be used in disaster recovery scenarios. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from attacks intended to prevent recovery.
BCR-08 Backup mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
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Adversaries may destroy, overwrite, or delete data and files in cloud storage objects and other cloud resources. Periodically backing up data stored in the cloud; ensuring backup confidentiality, integrity, and availability; and verifying data restoration from backup provides data protection and allows for quick recovery from data destruction attacks.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain
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The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
STA-10 Supply Chain Risk Management mitigates T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
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The mitigative applications of this control relate to (e) "software supply chain risk management practices for ensuring software integrity, traceability, and provenance (e.g., software build practices, component management, and use of Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs))" SBOMs are known to provide transparency into software components, which may enable the identification of vulnerable software libraries, components, or code and mitigate the injection or execution of vulnerable or malicious code.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1659 Content Injection
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1552.004 Private Keys
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1651 Cloud Administration Command
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1610 Deploy Container
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1552.007 Container API
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-03 Secure Interoperability and Portability Management mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control requires the CSP to encrypt communications using industry-standard protocols, securely manage API certificates and keys, and monitor/patch for vulnerabilities. The guidance for CSC requires it to classify API data, encrypt sensitive information during import/export, use secure protocols, and manage encryption keys independently to mitigate risks of data tampering, loss, or unauthorized access.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1651 Cloud Administration Command
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1071.001 Web Protocols
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1021.007 Cloud Services
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1671 Cloud Application Integration
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1552.007 Container API
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
IPY-02 Application Interface Availability mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control requires the CSP to provide secure, standards-based, interoperable APIs with up-to-date documentation and communicate changes, while the CSC must review API documentation, use open standards, test API functionality for data transfer and recovery, monitor for outages and changes, and ensure secure, portable, and interoperable cloud deployments.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
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This control can help prevent adversaries attempting to exfiltrate data via a physical medium, such as a removable drive, through mechanisms such as automatic screen locking and automatic session logout.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from creating or manipulating accounts.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from creating or manipulating accounts.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from creating or manipulating accounts.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from modifying or manipulating authentication mechanisms.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from modifying or manipulating authentication mechanisms.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control includes account management controls such as enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA), which can help prevent adversaries from modifying or manipulating authentication mechanisms.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1113 Screen Capture
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This control can help prevent adversaries attempting to exfiltrate data via screenshots through mechanisms such as automatic screen locking and automatic session logout.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control can help prevent adversaries attempting to access data from cloud storage through using multi-factor authentication to restrict access to resources and cloud storage APIs.
HRS-03 Clean Desk Policy and Procedures mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
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This control can help prevent adversaries attempting to destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network through Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for cloud storage resources to prevent unauthorized deletion of critical data and infrastructure.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. Adversaries may abuse permission configurations that allow them to gain temporarily elevated access to cloud resources. Many cloud environments allow administrators to grant user or service accounts permission to request just-in-time access to roles, impersonate other accounts, or pass roles onto resources and services. In terms of mitigations, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1098.006 Additional Container Cluster Roles
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled user or service account to maintain persistent access to a container orchestration system. In terms of mitigation, having multi-level approval chains for creating additional roles or ensuring that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies could help catch the use of this technique.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. For example, adversaries may update IAM policies in cloud-based environments or add a new global administrator in Office 365 environments. In terms of mitigation, having multi-level approval chains for creating additional roles or ensuring that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies could help catch the use of this technique.
IAM-04 Separation of Duties mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control describes separation of duties (SoD) must be implemented by assigning and managing distinct roles for users, applications, and services, minimizing overlapping responsibilities and restricting access to critical functions through centralized role management, multi-level approvals, and automated provisioning tools. Adversaries may abuse permission configurations that allow them to gain temporarily elevated access to cloud resources. Many cloud environments allow administrators to grant user or service accounts permission to request just-in-time access to roles, impersonate other accounts, or pass roles onto resources and services. In terms of mitigations, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. Many organizations maintain hybrid user and device identities that are shared between on-premises and cloud-based environments. For this technique, adversaries may be able to modify the hybrid identity authentication process from the cloud. In terms of mitigation, reviewing the hybrid identity solution in use for any discrepancies could aid with thwarting the use of this technique.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials and identity to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment. For example, adversaries may add credentials for Service Principals and Applications in addition to existing legitimate credentials in Azure / Entra ID. In terms of mitigation, a dynamic inventory of permitted cloud identities and roles may aid in flagging the creation or addition of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. A dynamic inventory of permitted cloud identities may aid in flagging the creation of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-03 Identity Inventory mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control describes how the CSP must actively maintain and review a comprehensive inventory of all system identities (users, services, applications, roles, groups) with access to cloud resources. In relation to this technique, default accounts may be created on a system after initial setup by connecting or integrating it with another application. Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a default account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. A dynamic inventory of permitted identities may aid in flagging the creation of any unauthorized identities.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021 Remote Services
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.004 SSH
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213.002 Sharepoint
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213.001 Confluence
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1555.005 Password Managers
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1555 Credentials from Password Stores
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1538 Cloud Service Dashboard
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-07 User Access Changes and Revocation mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control focuses on the secure deprovisioning of user access by automating account removal, detecting and revoking inactive accounts. These mitigative actions reduce the risk of lingering or inappropriate access following employee termination, role changes, or security incidents.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to modify cloud bucket lifecycle policies (e.g., PutLifecycleConfiguration in AWS) to only those accounts that require it. In AWS environments, consider using Service Control policies to limit the use of the PutBucketLifecycle API call.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to delete backup files and disable any restoration capabilties. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit the user accounts that have access to backups to only those required. For example, in AWS environments, consider using Service Control Policies to restrict API calls to delete backups, snapshots, and images.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to directly download cloud user data such as OneDrive files. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, Configure user permissions groups and roles for access to cloud storage. Implement strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls to prevent access to storage solutions except for the applications, users, and services that require access. Ensure that temporary access tokens are issued rather than permanent credentials, especially when access is being granted to entities outside of the internal security boundary.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries has been observed using this technique to directly download cloud user data such as OneDrive files. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, Configure user permissions groups and roles for access to cloud storage. Implement strict Identity and Access Management (IAM) controls to prevent access to storage solutions except for the applications, users, and services that require access. Ensure that temporary access tokens are issued rather than permanent credentials, especially when access is being granted to entities outside of the internal security boundary.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1021.008 Direct Cloud VM Connections
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries may utilize these cloud native methods to directly access virtual infrastructure and pivot through an environment. These connections typically provide direct console access to the VM rather than the execution of scripts (i.e., Cloud Administration Command). For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit which users are allowed to access compute infrastructure via cloud native methods. If direct virtual machine connections are not required for administrative use or certain users, disable these connection types where feasible.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries may add, delete, or otherwise modify resource groups within an IaaS hierarchy. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to add, delete, or modify resource groups to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.002 Create Cloud Instance
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to create new virtual machines for defense evasion within the target's cloud environment after leveraging credential access to cloud assets. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies. Additionally, enforce user permissions to ensure only the expected users have the capability to create new instances.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.001 Create Snapshot
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to create snapshots of EBS volumes and RDS instances for execution and defense evasion. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.003 Delete Cloud Instance
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversary's have been observed using this technique to delete the victime's systems and resources in the cloud to trigger the organization's incident and crisis response process. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for deleting new instances in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578.005 Modify Cloud Compute Configurations
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to request quotas adjustments or modify tenant-level compute setting to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to modify cloud compute infrastructure for evading defenses. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions for creating, deleting, and otherwise altering compute components in accordance with least privilege. Organizations should limit the number of users within the organization with an IAM role that has administrative privileges, strive to reduce all permanent privileged role assignments, and conduct periodic entitlement reviews on IAM users, roles and policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to introduce new firewall rules or policies to allow access into a victim cloud environment and/or disable cloud logs to evade defenses. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure and ensure least privilege principles are applied to Identity and Access Management (IAM) security policies to prevent only necessary users to modify certain security mechanisms in place.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562.007 Disable or Modify Cloud Firewall
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been known to introduce new firewall rules or policies to allow access into a victim cloud environment and/or move laterally from the cloud control plane to the data plane. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure and ensure least privilege principles are applied to Identity and Access Management (IAM) security policies to prevent only necessary users to modify firewall rules or policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1562.008 Disable or Modify Cloud Logs
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, configure default account policy to enable logging. Manage policies to ensure only necessary users have permissions to make changes to logging policies. Adversaries have been known to disable or otherwise restrict various AWS logging services, such as AWS CloudTrail and VPC flow logs
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1548.005 Temporary Elevated Cloud Access
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit the privileges of cloud accounts to assume, create, or impersonate additional roles, policies, and permissions to only those required. Where just-in-time access is enabled, consider requiring manual approval for temporary elevation of privileges.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.004 SSH Authorized Keys
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation for cloud IaaS, ensure that only users who explicitly require the permissions to update instance metadata or configurations can do so.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permission to add access keys to accounts. For example, in AWS environments, prohibit users from calling the sts:GetFederationToken API unless explicitly required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to add permissions to accounts or update IAM policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permissions to modify accounts or account-related policies.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that proper cloud policies are implemented to dictate the the secure enrollment and deactivation of authentication mechanisms, such as MFA, for user accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that proper cloud policies are implemented to dictate the the secure enrollment and deactivation of authentication mechanisms, such as MFA, for user accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, limit permissions to modify conditional access policies to only those required.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, limit the ability for user accounts to create additional accounts.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands and move laterally through the network. In terms of mitigation, ensure that any accounts used by third-party providers to access these systems are traceable to the third-party and are not used throughout the network or used by other third-party providers in the same environment. Ensure there are regular reviews of accounts provisioned to these systems to verify continued business need, and ensure there is governance to trace de-provisioning of access that is no longer required. Ensure proper system and access isolation for critical network systems through use of account privilege separation.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries may abuse serverless computing, integration, and automation services to execute arbitrary code in cloud environments. Remove permissions to create, modify, or run serverless resources from users that do not explicitly require them. Where possible, consider restricting access to and use of serverless functions. For examples, conditional access policies can be applied to users attempting to abuse these resources in various ways as a means of executing arbitrary commands.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, properly manage accounts and permissions used by parties in trusted relationships to minimize potential abuse by the party and if the party is compromised by an adversary. In Office 365 environments, partner relationships and roles can be viewed under the "Partner Relationships" page
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1484.002 Trust Modification
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. For this technique, adversaries have been known to add a federated identity provider to the victim’s SSO tenant and activates automatic account linking. In terms of mitigation, using the principal of least privilege and protect administrative access to domain trusts and identity tenants. Additionally, in cloud environments, limit permissions to create new identity providers to only those accounts that require them. In AWS environments, consider using Service Control policies to limit the use of API calls such as CreateSAMLProvider or CreateOpenIDConnectProvider.
IAM-05 Least Privilege mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control describes the enforcement of the principle of least privilege implementing controls such as regular automated reviews of access permissions, enforcing MFA for high-risk accounts, promptly revoking unused privileges, and by limiting access to sensitive data. Adversaries have been observed leveraging this type of technique for collecting data from misconfigured cloud-hosted databases. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, enforce the principle of least-privilege. Consider implementing access control mechanisms that include both authentication and authorization.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1136.003 Cloud Account
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may create a cloud account to maintain access to victim systems. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for new user and privileged accounts. For instance, require multi-factor authentication to register devices in Entra ID. Configure multi-factor authentication systems to disallow enrolling new devices for inactive accounts. When first enrolling MFA, use conditional access policies to restrict device enrollment to trusted locations or devices, and consider using temporary access passes as an initial MFA solution to enroll a device.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, an adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts. Implementing MFA across all critical systems and services ensures robust protection against account takeover and unauthorized access.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts. Consider enforcing multi-factor authentication for the CreateKeyPair and ImportKeyPair API calls through IAM policies
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, in order to create or manipulate accounts, the adversary must already have sufficient permissions on systems or the domain. In terms of mitigation, use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, in terms of mitigation, ensure that cloud accounts, particularly privileged accounts, have complex, unique passwords across all systems on the network. Passwords and access keys should be rotated regularly. This limits the amount of time credentials can be used to access resources if a credential is compromised without your knowledge. Cloud service providers may track access key age to help audit and identify keys that may need to be rotated.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.007 Hybrid Identity
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may modify or otherwise backdoor cloud authentication processes that are tied to on-premises user identities in order to bypass typical authentication mechanisms, access credentials, and enable persistent access to accounts. In. terms of mitigation, integrating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of organizational policy can greatly reduce the risk of an adversary gaining control of valid credentials that may be used for additional tactics.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1621 Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may attempt to bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms and gain access to accounts by generating MFA requests sent to users. In terms of mitigation, implementing more secure 2FA/MFA mechanisms in replacement of simple push or one-click 2FA/MFA options, or enabling account restrictions to prevent login attempts, and the subsequent 2FA/MFA service requests, from being initiated from suspicious locations or when the source of the login attempts do not match the location of the 2FA/MFA smart device, or using conditional access policies to block logins from non-compliant devices or from outside defined organization IP ranges can limit the abuse of this technique to circumvent account compromise.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556.006 Multi-Factor Authentication
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may disable or modify multi-factor authentication (MFA) mechanisms to enable persistent access to compromised accounts. In terms of mitigation, ensure that proper policies are implemented to dictate the secure enrollment and deactivation of MFA for user accounts.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1556 Modify Authentication Process
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may modify authentication mechanisms and processes to access user credentials or enable otherwise unwarranted access to accounts. In terms of mitigation, integrating multi-factor authentication (MFA) as part of organizational policy can greatly reduce the risk of an adversary gaining control of valid credentials, then attempting to modify the authentication process that may be used for additional tactics such as initial access, lateral movement, and collecting information. MFA can also be used to restrict access to cloud resources and APIs.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, secrets managers support the secure centralized management of passwords, API keys, and other credential material. Where secrets managers are in use, cloud services can dynamically acquire credentials via API requests rather than accessing secrets insecurely stored in plain text files or environment variables. In terms of mitigation, limit the number of cloud accounts and services with permission to query the secrets manager to only those required. Ensure that accounts and services with permissions to query the secrets manager only have access to the secrets they require.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.003 Password Spraying
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.004 Credential Stuffing
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.002 Password Cracking
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110.001 Password Guessing
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1110 Brute Force
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. In terms of mitigation, Set account lockout policies after a certain number of failed login attempts to prevent passwords from being guessed. Also, where possible, enforce multi-factor authentication on externally facing services to limit brute force succession.
IAM-02 Strong Password Policy and Procedures mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control requires the CSP to enforce strong password management practices, implement protections against brute-force attacks, and support secure password reset processes. For this technique, adversaries may breach or otherwise leverage organizations who have access to intended victims. Access through trusted third party relationship abuses an existing connection that may not be protected or receives less scrutiny than standard mechanisms of gaining access to a network. In terms of mitigation, eequire MFA for all delegated administrator accounts. Properly manage accounts and password policies, including MFA requirements, used by parties in trusted relationships to minimize potential abuse by the party if the party is compromised by an adversary.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1070 Indicator Removal
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may delete or modify artifacts generated within systems to remove evidence of their presence or hinder defenses. In terms of mitigation, automatically forward events to a log server or data repository to prevent conditions in which the adversary can locate and manipulate data on the local system. When possible, minimize time delay on event reporting to avoid prolonged storage on the local system.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data. In terms of mitigation, backups that are stored off system and are protected from common methods adversaries may use to gain access and manipulate backups can lessen the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, in cloud environments, adversaries may disable versioning and backup policies and delete snapshots, database backups, machine images, and prior versions of objects designed to be used in disaster recovery scenarios. In terms of mitigation, enable versioning on storage objects where possible within the cloud environment, and copy backups to other accounts or regions to isolate them from the original copies can aid with lessening the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1491.002 External Defacement
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may modify external systems or applications to an enterprise network, thus affecting the integrity of the original content by external users. In terms of mitigation, taking regular data backups that can be used to restore organizational data can limit the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1491.001 Internal Defacement
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may modify internal systems or thus affecting the integrity and operations of the original content by internal users. In terms of mitigation, taking regular data backups that can be used to restore organizational data can limit the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1491 Defacement
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may modify visual content available internally or externally to an enterprise network, thus affecting the integrity of the original content. In terms of mitigation, taking regular data backups that can be used to restore organizational data can limit the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may encrypt data on target systems or on large numbers of systems in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources. In terms of mitigation, consider enabling versioning in cloud environments to maintain backup copies of storage objects to limit the impact of this technique.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may modify the lifecycle policies of a cloud storage bucket to destroy all objects stored within. Cloud storage buckets often allow users to set lifecycle policies to automate the migration, archival, or deletion of objects after a set period of time In terms of mitigation, consider limiting permissions to lessen the impact of this technique by modifying cloud bucket lifecycle policies (e.g., PutLifecycleConfiguration in AWS) to only those accounts that require it. In AWS environments, consider using Service Control policies to limit the use of the PutBucketLifecycle API call.
DSP-16 Data Retention and Deletion mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
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This control describes the shared responsibility of both the CSP and CSC for securely managing data retention, archiving, and deletion across all cloud service models. Implementation involves establishing secure tools and processes for data retention, configuring backups, enforcing retention policies, and maintaining safeguards within each party’s environment. For this technique, adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. In terms of mitigation, taking regular data backups that can be used to restore organizational data and ensuring backups are stored off system and protected from common methods adversaries may use to gain access and destroy the backups to prevent recovery can limit the impact of this technique.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may insert, delete, replicate, or manipulate data in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data. In terms of mitigation, identifying critical business and system processes that may be targeted by adversaries and working to isolate and secure those systems against unauthorized access and tampering.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may insert, delete, or manipulate data at rest in order to influence external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data. In terms of mitigation, encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications such as replication of data from production to non-production environments. Also, enforcing least privilege principles applied to important information resources could reduce exposure to data manipulation risk from different systems and environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may alter data en route to storage or other systems in order to manipulate external outcomes or hide activity, thus threatening the integrity of the data. In terms of mitigation, encrypt all important data flows to reduce the impact of tailored modifications on data in transit.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands, such as replicating production data in non-production environments. In terms of mitigation, granting access to application deployment systems only to a limited number of authorized administrators to limit the ability to replicate data across production and non-production environments. Also, verifying that account credentials that may be used to access deployment systems are unique and not used throughout the enterprise network can limit the abuse of this technique to replicate production data in non-production environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1552.007 Container API
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, an adversary may access the Docker API to collect logs that contain credentials to cloud, container, and various other resources in the environment. In terms of mitigation, limit communications with the container service to managed and secured channels and deny direct remote access to internal systems through the use of network proxies, gateways, and firewalls to lessen the ability of the abuse of this technique.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1199 Trusted Relationship
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may breach or otherwise leverage organizations who have access to intended victims. Access through trusted third party relationship abuses an existing connection that may not be protected or receives less scrutiny than standard mechanisms of gaining access to a network. In terms of mitigation, network segmentation can be used to isolate infrastructure components that do not require broad network access from various trusted partners and properly managing accounts and permissions used by parties in trusted relationships to minimize potential abuse by the party and if the party is compromised by an adversary.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network. Exploitation of a software vulnerability occurs when an adversary takes advantage of a programming error in a program, or cloud service. In terms of mitigation, segmenting networks and systems appropriately to reduce access to production systems and services to controlled methods. Also, minimizing permissions and access for service accounts to limit impact of exploitation.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1133 External Remote Services
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may leverage external-facing remote services to initially access and/or persist within a network. Remote services such as VPNs, Citrix, and other access mechanisms allow users to connect to internal enterprise network resources from external locations. In terms of mitigation, denying direct remote access to internal production systems through the use of network proxies, gateways, and firewalls can lessen the abuse of this technique. Also, consider using IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges to mitigate the use of stolen or replication to access data.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an un-encrypted protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location, such as a non-production environment to facilitate exfiltration. In terms of mitigation, follow best practices for network firewall configurations to allow only necessary ports and traffic to enter and exit the network. Also, consider using IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges to mitigate the use of stolen or replication to access data.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an asymmetric protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location, such as a non-production environment to facilitate exfiltration. In terms of mitigation, follow best practices for network firewall configurations to allow only necessary ports and traffic to enter and exit the network. Also, consider using IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges to mitigate the use of stolen or replication to access data.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1048.001 Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over a symmetrically encrypted network protocol other than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location, such as a non-production environment to facilitate exfiltration. In terms of mitigation, follow best practices for network firewall configurations to allow only necessary ports and traffic to enter and exit the network. Also, consider using IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges to mitigate the use of stolen or replication to access data.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over a different protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location, such as a non-production environment to facilitate exfiltration. In terms of mitigation, follow best practices for network firewall configurations to allow only necessary ports and traffic to enter and exit the network. Also, consider using IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges to mitigate the use of stolen or replication to access data.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1610 Deploy Container
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may deploy a container into an environment to facilitate execution or evade defenses. In some cases, adversaries may deploy a new container which could contain production data of the environment. In terms of mitigation, enforcing the principle of least privilege by limiting container dashboard access to only the necessary users. Also, denying direct remote access to internal production systems through the use of network proxies, gateways, and firewalls in order to lessen the ability to use of production data in non-production environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1586.003 Cloud Accounts
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to move production data throughout the cloud environment. In terms of mitigation, consider configuring access controls and firewalls to limit which accounts have access to production critical systems and domain controllers. Most cloud environments support separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances that enable further segmentation of cloud systems from production and non-production environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to move production data throughout the cloud environment. In terms of mitigation, consider configuring access controls and firewalls to limit which accounts have access to production critical systems and domain controllers. Most cloud environments support separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances that enable further segmentation of cloud systems from production and non-production environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to move production data throughout the cloud environment. In terms of mitigation, consider configuring access controls and firewalls to limit which accounts have access to production critical systems and domain controllers. Most cloud environments support separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances that enable further segmentation of cloud systems from production and non-production environments.
DSP-15 Limitation of Production Data Use mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control describes how the CSP and CSC must independently implement technical safeguards such as network segmentation, encryption (at rest and in transit), secure key management, and access controls to prevent unauthorized replication or use of production data in non-production environments. For this technique, many IaaS providers offer solutions for online data object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. In terms of mitigation, enforcing access control lists on storage systems and objects to block the unauthorized access of which production data could be replicated in non-production environments.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1020.001 Traffic Duplication
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, adversaries may leverage traffic mirroring in order to automate data exfiltration over compromised infrastructure. Many cloud-based environments also support traffic mirroring. For example, AWS Traffic Mirroring, GCP Packet Mirroring, and Azure vTap allow users to define specified instances to collect traffic from and specified targets to send collected traffic to. Ensure that all wired and/or wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately. Use best practices for authentication protocols, such as Kerberos, and ensure web traffic that may contain credentials is protected by SSL/TLS.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1669 Wi-Fi Networks
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, Ensure that all wired and/or wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately. Use best practices for authentication protocols, such as Kerberos, and ensure web traffic that may contain credentials is protected by SSL/TLS. Further mitigation may include separating networking environments for Wi-Fi and Ethernet-wired networks for access to sensitive resources.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, consider implementing network-based filtering restrictions to prohibit data transfers to untrusted VPCs as a possible mitigation. Adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including through sharing/syncing and creating backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, adversaries may collect on and exfiltrate on sensitive data stored in cloud storage. In terms of mitigation, the use of IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges could mitigate the use of stolen credentials to access data.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, adversaries may steal sensitive data by exfiltrating it over a different protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. In terms of mitigation, the use of IP allowlisting along with user account management to ensure that data access is restricted not only to valid users but only from expected IP ranges could mitigate the use of stolen credentials to access data.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, file encryption should be enforced across email communications containing sensitive information that may be obtained through access to email services. Adversaries may use stolen application access tokens to bypass the typical authentication process and access restricted accounts, information, or services on remote systems.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1040 Network Sniffing
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, ensure that all wired and/or wireless traffic is encrypted appropriately. Use best practices for authentication protocols, such as Kerberos, and ensure web traffic that may contain credentials is protected by SSL/TLS.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1114.003 Email Forwarding Rule
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1114.002 Remote Email Collection
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1114.001 Local Email Collection
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1114 Email Collection
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1565.003 Runtime Data Manipulation
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, encrypt all important data flows to reduce the impact of tailored modifications on data in transit. Also, In cloud environments, use VPCs, subnets, and security groups to isolate applications and enforce traffic rules on those systems to mitigate any against unauthorized access and tampering.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, encrypt all important data flows to reduce the impact of tailored modifications on data in transit. Also, In cloud environments, use VPCs, subnets, and security groups to isolate applications and enforce traffic rules on those systems to mitigate any against unauthorized access and tampering.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, encrypt all important data flows to reduce the impact of tailored modifications on data in transit. Also, In cloud environments, use VPCs, subnets, and security groups to isolate applications and enforce traffic rules on those systems to mitigate any against unauthorized access and tampering.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1020 Automated Exfiltration
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, encryption and off-system storage of sensitive information may be one way to mitigate the successful exfiltration of files.
DSP-10 Sensitive Data Transfer mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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The control describes the implementation of strong technical and procedural safeguards, such as TLS with strong keys)to protect sensitive data during transfer and prevent unauthorized access or interception. For this technique, encryption and off-system storage of sensitive information may be one way to mitigate collection of files.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1550.004 Web Session Cookie
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, configure browsers or tasks to regularly delete persistent cookies to prevent the adversaries form using stolen session cookies to authenticate to web applications and services as legitmate users.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1114.003 Email Forwarding Rule
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email. Encryption using public key cryptography requires the adversary to obtain the private certificate along with an encryption key to decrypt messages.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1114.002 Remote Email Collection
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email. Encryption using public key cryptography requires the adversary to obtain the private certificate along with an encryption key to decrypt messages.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1114.001 Local Email Collection
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email. Encryption using public key cryptography requires the adversary to obtain the private certificate along with an encryption key to decrypt messages.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1114 Email Collection
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, the use of encryption provides an added layer of security to sensitive information sent over email. Encryption using public key cryptography requires the adversary to obtain the private certificate along with an encryption key to decrypt messages.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1565.002 Transmitted Data Manipulation
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, encrypt all important data flows to reduce the impact of tailored modifications on data in transit for mitigation.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1565.001 Stored Data Manipulation
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, consider encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1565 Data Manipulation
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, consider encrypting important information to reduce an adversary’s ability to perform tailored data modifications.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, encrypt data stored at rest in databases for mitigation.
DSP-08 Data Privacy by Design and Default mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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Privacy by design and default is emphasized in this control, integrating privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. This includes implementing controls for encrypting sensitive information to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of data, preventing unauthorized access or tampering. For this technique, encrypt data stored at rest in cloud storage for mitigation. Managed encryption keys can be rotated by most providers.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1078 Valid Accounts
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of existing accounts as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. In terms of mitigations, ensure that applications do not store sensitive data or credentials insecurely. (e.g. plaintext credentials in code, published credentials in repositories, or credentials in public cloud storage). Applications and appliances that utilize default username and password should be changed immediately after the installation, and before deployment to a production environment.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may use stolen application access tokens to bypass the typical authentication process and access restricted accounts, information, or services on remote systems. In terms of mitigation, consider implementing token binding strategies that cryptographically bind a token to a secret. This may prevent the token from being used without knowledge of the secret or possession of the device the token is tied to
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may use alternate authentication material, such as password hashes, Kerberos tickets, and application access tokens, in order to move laterally within an environment and bypass normal system access controls. In terms of mitigation, consider implementing token binding strategies that cryptographically bind a token to a secret. This may prevent the token from being used without knowledge of the secret or possession of the device the token is tied to
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Applications often depend on external software to function properly. Popular open source projects that are used as dependencies in many applications may be targeted as a means to add malicious code to users of the dependency. In terms of mitigation, application developers should be cautious when selecting third-party libraries to integrate into their application. Additionally, where possible, developers should lock software dependencies to specific versions that are known to be secure rather than pulling the latest version on build.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1195 Supply Chain Compromise
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may manipulate products or product delivery mechanisms prior to receipt by a final consumer for the purpose of data or system compromise. In terms of mitigation, application developers should be cautious when selecting third-party libraries to integrate into their application. Additionally, where possible, developers should lock software dependencies to specific versions that are known to be secure rather than pulling the latest version on build.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1559 Inter-Process Communication
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may abuse inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms for local code or command execution. When it comes to mitigation from this control to this technique, ensuring all COM alerts and Protected View are enabled and enable the Hardened Runtime capability when developing applications.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1574.001 DLL
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses. In terms of mitigation, when possible, the inclusion hash values in manifest files may help prevent side-loading of malicious libraries.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. For this technique, adversaries may execute their own malicious payloads by hijacking the way operating systems run programs. To mitigate when possible, include hash values in manifest files to help prevent side-loading of malicious libraries.
DSP-07 Data Protection by Design and Default mitigates T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access
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Data protection by design and default is emphasized in this control, requiring proactive integration of security and privacy measures at every stage of the SDLC and across all components. For this technique, adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials. Mitigation use-cases include application developers considering taking measures to validate authentication requests by enabling one-time passwords, providing timestamps or sequence numbers for messages sent, using digital signatures, and/or using random session keys.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries who steal account API tokens in cloud and containerized environments may be able to access data and perform actions with the permissions of these accounts, which can lead to privilege escalation and further compromise of the environment. In terms of mitigation, enforcing role-based access control can limit accounts to the least privileges they require. A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) can be used to set usage policies and manage user permissions on cloud applications to prevent access to application access tokens.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1555.006 Cloud Secrets Management Stores
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may search for common password storage locations, such as cloud secrets managers, to obtain user credentials. In terms of mitigation, Limit the number of cloud accounts and services with permission to query the secrets manager to only those required. Ensure that accounts and services with permissions to query the secrets manager only have access to the secrets they require.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1609 Container Administration Command
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may abuse a container administration service to execute commands within a container. A container administration service such as the Docker daemon, the Kubernetes API server, or the kubelet may allow remote management of containers within an environment and access to sensitive data within it. In terms of mitigation, in Kubernetes clusters deployed in cloud environments, use native cloud platform features to restrict the IP ranges that are permitted to access to API server.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1098.003 Additional Cloud Roles
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may abuse cloud APIs to execute malicious commands. APIs available in cloud environments provide various functionalities and are a feature-rich method for programmatic access to nearly all aspects of a tenant. In terms of mitigation, using application control where appropriate to block use of PowerShell CmdLets or other host based resources to access cloud API resources and sensitive data could mitigate this technique.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may abuse cloud APIs to execute malicious commands. APIs available in cloud environments provide various functionalities and are a feature-rich method for programmatic access to nearly all aspects of a tenant. In terms of mitigation, using application control where appropriate to block use of PowerShell CmdLets or other host based resources to access cloud API resources and sensitive data could mitigate this technique.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1098.001 Additional Cloud Credentials
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the environment. In terms of mitigation, Use multi-factor authentication for user and privileged accounts. Consider enforcing multi-factor authentication for the CreateKeyPair and ImportKeyPair API calls through IAM policies; Configure access controls and firewalls to limit access to critical systems and domain controllers. Most cloud environments support separate virtual private cloud (VPC) instances that enable further segmentation of cloud systems; Or, Ensure that low-privileged user accounts do not have permission to add access keys to accounts. In certain cloud environments, prohibit users from calling the GetFederationToken API unless explicitly required.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including through sharing/syncing and creating backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service. In terms of mitigation, implementing network-based filtering restrictions to prohibit data transfers to untrusted VPCs can aid with mitigating this technique.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, if an application is hosted on cloud-based infrastructure then exploiting it may lead to compromise of the underlying sensitive data hosted on that platform. In terms of mitigation, Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) may be used to limit exposure of applications to prevent exploit traffic from reaching the application, or segment externally facing servers and services from the rest of the network with a DMZ or on separate hosting infrastructure could limit the impact the exploited application has on the rest of the infrastructure hosting the data.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. As it related to this technique, many IaaS and SaaS platforms (such as Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, GitHub, and AWS S3) support the direct download of files, emails, source code, and other sensitive information via the web console or Cloud API. In terms of mitigation, configure network firewalls to allow only necessary ports and traffic to enter and exit the network, configure user permissions groups and roles for access to cloud storage, or enforce proxies and use dedicated servers for services such as DNS and only allow those systems to communicate over respective ports/protocols, instead of all systems within a network. Cloud service providers support IP-based restrictions when accessing cloud resources.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, application access tokens are used to make authorized API requests on behalf of a user or service and are commonly used to access resources in cloud, container-based applications, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). In terms of mitigation, where possible, consider restricting the use of access tokens outside of expected contexts. For example, in AWS environments, consider using data perimeters to prevent credential use outside of an expected network.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may attempt to access the Cloud Instance Metadata API to collect credentials and other sensitive data. Limit access to the Instance Metadata API. A properly configured Web Application Firewall (WAF) may help prevent external adversaries from exploiting Server-side Request Forgery (SSRF) attacks that allow access to the Cloud Instance Metadata API.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials. These credentials can be stored and/or misplaced in many locations. In terms of mitigation, limit access to sensitive services, for example if it is necessary that a SaaS application must store credentials in some object storage, registry, or password store, then ensure the associated accounts have limited permissions so they cannot be abused if obtained by an adversary.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, information repositories have been improperly secured, typically by unintentionally allowing for overly-broad access by all users or even public access to unauthenticated users. This is particularly common with cloud-native or cloud-hosted services, such as AWS Relational Database Service (RDS), Redis, or ElasticSearch. In terms of mitigation, encrypt data stored at rest in databases and ensure that repositories such as cloud-hosted databases are not unintentionally exposed to the public, and that security groups assigned to them permit only necessary and authorized hosts.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, in cloud-based environments, adversaries may also use cloud APIs, data pipelines, command line interfaces, or extract, transform, and load (ETL) services to automatically collect data. In terms of mitigation, encrypting data stored at rest in cloud storage through the use of managed encryption keys can be rotated by most providers.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may collect sensitive data from these cloud storage solutions. Providers typically offer security guides to help end users configure systems, though misconfigurations are a common problem. Many IaaS providers offer solutions for online data object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Storage, and Google Cloud Storage.
DSP-17 Sensitive Data Protection mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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This control requires the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) to implement robust mitigative controls such as network segmentation and firewalling, encryption, access controls with multi-factor authentication and intrusion detection to ensure sensitive customer data is protected throughout its lifecycle. For this technique, adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel. In terms of mitigation, an NIDS or DLP solution may can block sensitive data being uploaded to web services via web browsers based on what's on the allow/block list.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including through sharing/syncing and creating backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1567.004 Exfiltration Over Webhook
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data to a webhook endpoint rather than over their primary command and control channel. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations. Adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1052.001 Exfiltration over USB
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Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a USB connected physical device. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
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Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data via a physical medium, such as a removable drive. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an existing command and control channel. Stolen data is encoded into the normal communications channel using the same protocol as command and control communications. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an un-encrypted network protocol other than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server. Adversaries may opt to obfuscate this data, without the use of encryption, within network protocols that are natively unencrypted (such as HTTP, FTP, or DNS). This may include custom or publicly available encoding/compression algorithms (such as base64) as well as embedding data within protocol headers and fields. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations. Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an asymmetrically encrypted network protocol other than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over a different protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1020 Automated Exfiltration
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data, such as sensitive documents, through the use of automated processing after being gathered during Collection. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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Once established within a system or network, an adversary may use automated techniques for collecting internal data. Methods for performing this technique could include use of a Command and Scripting Interpreter to search for and copy information fitting set criteria such as file type, location, or name at specific time intervals. In cloud-based environments, adversaries may also use cloud APIs, data pipelines, command line interfaces, or extract, transform, and load (ETL) services to automatically collect data. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1025 Data from Removable Media
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Adversaries may search connected removable media on computers they have compromised to find files of interest. Sensitive data can be collected from any removable media (optical disk drive, USB memory, etc.) connected to the compromised system prior to Exfiltration. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-11 Data Loss Prevention mitigates T1005 Data from Local System
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Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, or virtual machine files, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration. This control requires implementing data leakage prevention (DLP) capapbiltities on endpoint devices. This includes classifying and inventorying data, protecting sensitive information in transit and at rest, monitoring for unauthorized disclosures, and responding to policy violations.
UEM-08 Storage Encryption mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control provides for implementation of endpoint storage encryption. Encryption ensures the confidentiality and integrity of data, such as OAuth access tokens used in a cloud-based email service. File encryption across email communications containing sensitive information that may be obtained through access to email services can help prevent adversaries from stealing application access tokens.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1204.003 Malicious Image
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Several cloud service providers support content trust models that require container images be signed by trusted sources. Malicious images can be prevented from running by implementing application control, script blocking, and other runtime execution prevention mechanisms from untrusted sources .
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1204 User Execution
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Malicious executables can be prevented from running by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1562.001 Disable or Modify Tools
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Malicious modification or disabling of security tools can be mitigated by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. The execution of unauthorized or malicious code on systems through abuse of command and script interpreters can be prevented by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. The execution of unauthorized or malicious code on systems through abuse of command and script interpreters can be prevented by implementing application control, script blocking, and other execution prevention mechanisms.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1080 Taint Shared Content
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits to taint content in shared storage locations.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits to bypass security features.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Endpoint exploit protection capabilities can be used to detect, block, and mitigate conditions indicative of exploits of public-facing applications.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Proper security configurations, limited system access, and application control can help mitigate the risk of adversaries deleting or removing built-in data and turning off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1136 Create Account
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Proper security configurations and limited system access can help prevent adversaries from creating accounts to maintain access.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1098 Account Manipulation
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Proper security configurations and limited system access can help prevent adversaries from manipulating accounts to maintain and/or elevate access.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1087 Account Discovery
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Adjusting access to user lists can prevent abuse of system functionality and help prevent adversaries from getting a listing of valid accounts or usernames.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Adjusting system settings and hardening default configurations can mitigate adversary exploitation of elevation control mechanisms and prevent abuse of system functionality.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1550.004 Web Session Cookie
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web cookies to help mitigate the risk of adversaries using stolen session cookies.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1535 Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Cloud service providers may allow customers to deactivate unused regions to help mitigate the risk of adversaries creating resources in unused regions.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Configuring appropriate data sharing restrictions in cloud services can help mitigate the risk of adversaries exfiltrating data by transferring.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Securing resource groups and limiting permissions can help mitigate the risk of adversaries adding, deleting, or otherwise modifying hierarchical structures.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1562 Impair Defenses
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Preventing insecure connections and ensuring proper permissions can help mitigate the risk of adversaries hindering or disabling preventative defenses.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1606.001 Web Cookies
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web credentials and limiting privileges can help mitigate the risk of adversaries generating and using forged web cookies.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1213.004 Customer Relationship Management Software
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Effectively securing information repositories and enforcing robust data retention policies can mitigate the risk of adversaries exploiting information repositories to access sensitive or valuable information.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1606 Forge Web Credentials
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Configuring applications to delete persistent web credentials and limiting privileges can help mitigate the risk of adversaries generating and using forged web credentials.
UEM-14 Third-Party Endpoint Security Posture mitigates T1213 Data from Information Repositories
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This control provides for the implementation of best practices for third-party endpoint management. Effectively securing information repositories and enforcing robust data retention policies can mitigate the risk of adversaries exploiting information repositories to access sensitive or valuable information.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1505.003 Web Shell
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify and remediate vulnerabilities or weaknesses that can be exploited. Web shells provide attackers with unauthorized and persistent remote control over a compromised web server, allowing them to execute commands, manipulate files, and steal data. A web application is compromised when an attacker exploits a vulnerability to upload a malicious script, which then acts as a backdoor for ongoing malicious activity. Remediating the vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to upload a web shell can help mitigate this technique.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1489 Service Stop
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Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users. Stopping critical services or processes can inhibit or stop response to an incident or aid in the adversary's overall objectives to cause damage to the environment. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1496.004 Cloud Service Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage compromised software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact hosted service availability. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1498.002 Reflection Amplification
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Adversaries may attempt to cause a denial of service (DoS) by reflecting a high-volume of network traffic to a target. This type of Network DoS takes advantage of a third-party server intermediary that hosts and will respond to a given spoofed source IP address. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1498.001 Direct Network Flood
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Adversaries may attempt to cause a denial of service (DoS) by directly sending a high-volume of network traffic to a target. This DoS attack may also reduce the availability and functionality of the targeted system(s) and network. Direct Network Floods are when one or more systems are used to send a high-volume of network packets towards the targeted service's network. Almost any network protocol may be used for flooding. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1490 Inhibit System Recovery
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Adversaries may delete or remove built-in data and turn off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system to prevent recovery. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
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Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications. For example, specific features in web applications may be highly resource intensive. Repeated requests to those features may be able to exhaust system resources and deny access to the application or the server itself. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood
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Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS). Adversaries often target the availability of DNS and web services, however others have been targeted as well. Web server software can be attacked through a variety of means, some of which apply generally while others are specific to the software being used to provide the service. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
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Adversaries may perform Endpoint Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of services to users. Endpoint DoS can be performed by exhausting the system resources those services are hosted on or exploiting the system to cause a persistent crash condition. Example services include websites, email services, DNS, and web-based applications. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1491 Defacement
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Adversaries may modify visual content available internally or externally to an enterprise network, thus affecting the integrity of the original content. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1485.001 Lifecycle-Triggered Deletion
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Adversaries may modify the lifecycle policies of a cloud storage bucket to destroy all objects stored within. Cloud storage buckets often allow users to set lifecycle policies to automate the migration, archival, or deletion of objects after a set period of time If a threat actor has sufficient permissions to modify these policies, they may be able to delete all objects at once. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1485 Data Destruction
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Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and network resources. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1498 Network Denial of Service
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Adversaries may perform Network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of targeted resources to users. Network DoS can be performed by exhausting the network bandwidth services rely on. Example resources include DNS, and web-based services and applications that provide resources to the utility services. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1496.001 Compute Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage the compute resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1496 Resource Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1496.002 Bandwidth Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage the network bandwidth resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-18 Datacenter Operations Resilience mitigates T1529 System Shutdown/Reboot
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Adversaries may shutdown/reboot systems to interrupt access to, or aid in the destruction of, those systems. This control establishes and regularly evaluates processes, procedures, and technical measures to ensure continuous operations of the datacenter, mitigating attacker techniques such as denial‑of‑service and other availability‑impacting attacks that seek to disrupt business and operational continuity.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1529 System Shutdown/Reboot
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Adversaries may shutdown/reboot systems to interrupt access to, or aid in the destruction of, those systems. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1496.002 Bandwidth Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage the network bandwidth resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1496 Resource Hijacking
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Adversaries may leverage the resources of co-opted systems to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact system and/or hosted service availability. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1498.002 Reflection Amplification
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Adversaries may attempt to cause a denial of service (DoS) by reflecting a high-volume of network traffic to a target. This type of Network DoS takes advantage of a third-party server intermediary that hosts and will respond to a given spoofed source IP address. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1498.001 Direct Network Flood
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Adversaries may perform Network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of targeted resources to users. Direct Network Floods are when one or more systems are used to send a high-volume of network packets towards the targeted service's network. Almost any network protocol may be used for flooding. Stateless protocols such as UDP or ICMP are commonly used but stateful protocols such as TCP can be used as well. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation
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Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities that can cause an application or system to crash and deny availability to users. Some systems may automatically restart critical applications and services when crashes occur, but they can likely be re-exploited to cause a persistent denial of service (DoS) condition. The control outlines several testing approaches, which could help mitigate this technique, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1499.003 Application Exhaustion Flood
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Adversaries may target resource intensive features of applications to cause a denial of service (DoS), denying availability to those applications. For example, specific features in web applications may be highly resource intensive. Repeated requests to those features may be able to exhaust system resources and deny access to the application or the server itself. The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify and remediate vulnerabilities or weaknesses that can be exploited such as the use of the application exhaustion flood technique to exhaust system resources and deny access to the web application for others.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1498 Network Denial of Service
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Adversaries may perform Network Denial of Service (DoS) attacks to degrade or block the availability of targeted resources to users. Network DoS can be performed by exhausting the network bandwidth services rely on. Example resources include DNS, and web-based services and applications that provide resources to the utility services. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1499.002 Service Exhaustion Flood
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Adversaries may target the different network services provided by systems to conduct a denial of service (DoS). Adversaries often target the availability of DNS and web services, however others have been targeted as well. Web server software can be attacked through a variety of means, some of which apply generally while others are specific to the software being used to provide the service. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-15 Secure Utilities mitigates T1489 Service Stop
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Adversaries may stop or disable services on a system to render those services unavailable to legitimate users. Stopping critical services or processes can inhibit or stop response to an incident or aid in the adversary's overall objectives to cause damage to the environment. This control requires securing, monitoring, maintaining, and regularly testing utility services (e.g., power, HVAC, communications) to ensure ongoing effectiveness, mitigating attacker techniques such as disruption of infrastructure, exploitation of unmonitored service failures, and availability attacks that can compromise system resilience.
DCS-09 Equipment Identification mitigates T1599.001 Network Address Translation Traversal
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This control enforces equipment identification as part of connection authentication, mitigating attacker techniques such as device spoofing, rogue device connections, and unauthorized network access through unverified or compromised hardware. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent can help with blocking this technique. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent may help in blocking this technique. Adversaries may bridge network boundaries by modifying a network device’s Network Address Translation (NAT) configuration, effectively compromising the device. Malicious modifications to NAT may enable an adversary to bypass restrictions on traffic routing that otherwise separate trusted and untrusted networks. Upon identifying a compromised network device being used to bridge a network boundary, block the malicious packets using an unaffected network device in path, such as a firewall or a router that has not been compromised. Continue to monitor for additional activity and to ensure that the blocks are indeed effective.
DCS-09 Equipment Identification mitigates T1599 Network Boundary Bridging
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Adversaries may bridge network boundaries by compromising perimeter network devices or internal devices responsible for network segmentation. Breaching these devices may enable an adversary to bypass restrictions on traffic routing that otherwise separate trusted and untrusted networks. This control enforces equipment identification as part of connection authentication, mitigating attacker techniques such as device spoofing, rogue device connections, and unauthorized network access through unverified or compromised hardware. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent can help with blocking this technique. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent may help in blocking this technique. Upon identifying a compromised network device being used to bridge a network boundary, block the malicious packets using an unaffected network device in path, such as a firewall or a router that has not been compromised. Continue to monitor for additional activity and to ensure that the blocks are indeed effective.
DCS-09 Equipment Identification mitigates T1200 Hardware Additions
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Adversaries may physically introduce computer accessories, networking hardware, or other computing devices into a system or network that can be used as a vector to gain access. This control enforces equipment identification as part of connection authentication, mitigating attacker techniques such as device spoofing, rogue device connections, and unauthorized network access through unverified or compromised hardware. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent can help with blocking this technique. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent may help in blocking this technique.
DCS-09 Equipment Identification mitigates T1219.003 Remote Access Hardware
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An adversary may use legitimate remote access hardware to establish an interactive command and control channel to target systems within networks. Remote access hardware may be physically installed and used post-compromise as an alternate communications channel for redundant access or as a way to establish an interactive remote session with the target system. This control enforces equipment identification as part of connection authentication, mitigating attacker techniques such as device spoofing, rogue device connections, and unauthorized network access through unverified or compromised hardware. Blocking unknown devices and accessories by endpoint security configuration and monitoring agent can help with blocking this technique.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1537 Transfer Data to Cloud Account
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data by transferring the data, including through sharing/syncing and creating backups of cloud environments, to another cloud account they control on the same service. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Certain data loss prevention capabilities can be detect and block data tagged as sensitive from being shared with individuals outside an organization
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1567.004 Exfiltration Over Webhook
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data to a webhook endpoint rather than over their primary command and control channel. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Certain data loss prevention capabilities can be detect and block pre-defined approved and non-approved webhooks to prevent unauthorized exfiltration.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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Adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Data loss prevention capabilities can be detect and block tagged sensitive data being uploaded to web services via web browsers or block pre-defined blacklisted websites.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1052.001 Exfiltration over USB
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Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data over a USB connected physical device. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Data loss prevention can detect and block sensitive data being copied to USB devices.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
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Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data via a physical medium, such as a removable drive. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Data loss prevention can detect and block sensitive data being copied to physical mediums.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an existing command and control channel. Stolen data is encoded into the normal communications channel using the same protocol as command and control communications. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. DLP can detect and block sensitive data being uploaded via known malicious C2 channels and unencrypted protocols.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1048.003 Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an un-encrypted network protocol other than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server. Adversaries may opt to obfuscate this data, without the use of encryption, within network protocols that are natively unencrypted (such as HTTP, FTP, or DNS). This may include custom or publicly available encoding/compression algorithms (such as base64) as well as embedding data within protocol headers and fields. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Some DLP capabilities can detect and block sensitive data being sent over unencrypted protocols.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1048.002 Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over an asymmetrically encrypted network protocol other than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Some DLP capabilities can detect and block sensitive data being uploaded via web browsers.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1048 Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol
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Adversaries may steal data by exfiltrating it over a different protocol than that of the existing command and control channel. The data may also be sent to an alternate network location from the main command and control server. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Some DLP capabilities can detect and block sensitive data being uploaded via web browsers.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1020 Automated Exfiltration
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Adversaries may exfiltrate data, such as sensitive documents, through the use of automated processing after being gathered during Collection. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Certain data loss prevention capabilities can restrict the attempt of mass automated exfiltrating tagged sensitive data and prevent the execution of it.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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Once established within a system or network, an adversary may use automated techniques for collecting internal data. Methods for performing this technique could include use of a Command and Scripting Interpreter to search for and copy information fitting set criteria such as file type, location, or name at specific time intervals. In cloud-based environments, adversaries may also use cloud APIs, data pipelines, command line interfaces, or extract, transform, and load (ETL) services to automatically collect data. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Certain data loss prevention capabilities can restrict the feature of mass automated collection techniques used by attackers on data that has been tagged sensitive.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1025 Data from Removable Media
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Adversaries may search connected removable media on computers they have compromised to find files of interest. Sensitive data can be collected from any removable media (optical disk drive, USB memory, etc.) connected to the compromised system prior to Exfiltration. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information.
DSP-04 Data Classification mitigates T1005 Data from Local System
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Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, or virtual machine files, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration. This control enforces the classification of data by type, criticality, and sensitivity level to enable appropriate protections (including DLP measures), mitigating attacker techniques such as data exfiltration, unauthorized disclosure, and the misuse of unprotected sensitive information. Data loss prevention can restrict access to sensitive data and detect sensitive data that is unencrypted.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1556.009 Conditional Access Policies
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. By modifying conditional access policies, such as adding additional trusted IP ranges, removing Multi-Factor Authentication requirements, or allowing additional Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions, adversaries may be able to ensure persistent access to accounts and circumvent defensive measures. Secure deployment templates can limit a user's ability to modify conditional access policies to only those required, which may limit this technique.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may gain access to and use configuration management and software deployment applications to execute commands and move laterally through the network. Security requirements for secure application deployment such as only granting access to application deployment systems only to authorized users and administrators, or ensuring the application deployment system can be configured to deploy only signed binaries can mitigate the adversary's abuse of this technique to execute commands and move laterally through the network.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may abuse serverless computing, integration, and automation services to execute arbitrary code in cloud environments. For example, in Microsoft 365 environments, an adversary may create a Power Automate workflow that forwards all emails a user receives or creates anonymous sharing links whenever a user is granted access to a document in SharePoint. Secure deployment templates and IaC scripts can restrict unusual serverless function modifications, such as adding roles to a function that allow unauthorized access or execution.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1666 Modify Cloud Resource Hierarchy
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may add, delete, or otherwise modify resource groups within an IaaS hierarchy. For example, in Azure environments, an adversary who has gained access to a Global Administrator account may create new subscriptions in which to deploy resources. Secure deployment templates should restrict the ability to openly changes to resource groups, such as creating new resource groups which may mitigate the abuse of this technique.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1610 Deploy Container
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may deploy a container into a cloud environment to facilitate execution or evade defenses. The control outlines the use of scanning images before deployment, and block those that are not in compliance with security policies, which can mitigate this technique.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1546 Event Triggered Execution
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may establish persistence and/or elevate privileges using system mechanisms that trigger execution based on specific events. Cloud environments may also support various functions and services that monitor and can be invoked in response to specific cloud events. Secure deployment templates and tools that limit the modification of cloud resources that may be abused for persistence, such as functions and workflows monitoring cloud events, could mitigate this technique.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1671 Cloud Application Integration
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may achieve persistence by leveraging OAuth application integrations in a software-as-a-service environment. Adversaries may create a custom application, add a legitimate application into the environment, or even co-opt an existing integration to achieve malicious ends. Secure deployment templates may mitigate the ability of an adversary to deploy malicious additions and changes to applications in the SaaS environment.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1525 Implant Internal Image
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may implant cloud or container images with malicious code to establish persistence after gaining access to an environment. Secure deployment templates and checking the integrity of images and containers used in cloud deployments to ensure they have not been modified to include malicious software may aid in mitigating this technique.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1535 Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may create cloud instances in unused geographic service regions in order to evade detection. Deployment templates and IaC scripts enforce which regions a deployment can occur and mitigate the ability of a compromised deployment to occur in an unused/unsupported region.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1496 Resource Hijacking
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may abuse compute resource within a victim's cloud environment by modifying any tenant-wide policies that limit the sizes of deployed virtual machines. Deployment templates and automated rollback can enforce resource quotas, network segmentation, and least‑privilege IAM roles, reducing the ability of a compromised deployment to be repurposed for crypto‑mining or other illicit compute use.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1578.005 Modify Cloud Compute Configurations
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may also modify settings that affect where cloud resources can be deployed, such as enabling T1535 : Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions. Enforcing approved deployment regions, and vetting deployed applications and resources under this control may reduce the chance that malicious cloud applications can be deployed.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1578 Modify Cloud Compute Infrastructure
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may also modify settings that affect where cloud resources can be deployed, such as enabling T1535 : Unused/Unsupported Cloud Regions. Enforcing approved deployment regions, and vetting deployed applications and resources under this control may reduce the chance that malicious cloud applications can be deployed.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. The automated patch‑management system could ensure OS, runtime, and application vulnerabilities are remediated quickly, removing the exploitable footholds attackers use to elevate privileges after a compromised deployment.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Standardized deployment templates, a curated list of approved automation/deployment tools, and vetting of IaC libraries reduce the chance that malicious third‑party code or compromised build tools enter the pipeline.
AIS-06 Automated Secure Application Deployment mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control applies to the secure deployments of applications and emphasizes the prevention of misconfigurations and malicious deployment activities. Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an cloud-hosted applications through software bugs or even deployment misconfigurations. Protecting cloud-hosted applications through standardized security configurations and deployment templates can mitigate the impact of this technique.
DSP-02 Secure Disposal mitigates T1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
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Adversaries may attempt to exfiltrate data via a physical medium, such as removable drives. This control ensures that storage media is securely and irreversibly sanitized using industry‑accepted methods to prevent data recovery, thereby mitigating attacker techniques such as data remanence exploitation, forensic recovery, and unauthorized access to residual sensitive information from discarded or repurposed devices.
DSP-02 Secure Disposal mitigates T1091 Replication Through Removable Media
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Adversaries may may attempt to connect and distribute malware via removable storage. In initial access, this may occur through manual manipulation of the media, modification of systems used to initially format the media, or modification to the media's firmware itself. This control ensures that storage media is securely and irreversibly sanitized using industry‑accepted methods to prevent data recovery, thereby mitigating attacker techniques such as data remanence exploitation, forensic recovery, and unauthorized access to residual sensitive information from discarded or repurposed devices.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify and remediate vulnerabilities or weaknesses that can be exploited. Attackers may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel. Regular testing should identify data exfiltration paths through applications and testing cloud APIs and web applications for unauthorized data access exfiltration.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1606.001 Web Cookies
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries can steal application access tokens as a means of acquiring credentials. Application access tokens are used to make authorized API requests on behalf of a user or service and are commonly used as a way to access resources in cloud and container-based applications. The SSDLC process should ensure that applications APIs, and applications access tokens are securely created and protected in their cloud environments.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1550.001 Application Access Token
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries can steal and use application access tokens as a means of acquiring credentials. Application access tokens are used to make authorized API requests on behalf of a user or service and are commonly used as a way to access resources in cloud and container-based applications. The SSDLC process should ensure that applications APIs, and applications access tokens are securely designed, developed, and protected in their cloud environments.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1550 Use Alternate Authentication Material
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. By stealing alternate authentication material, adversaries are able to bypass system access controls and authenticate to systems without knowing the plaintext password or any additional authentication factors. The use of secure coding techniques to implement token binding allows applications and services to cryptographically bind their security tokens to the TLS layer to mitigate token theft.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials. Secure coding and secure configurations can prevent the exploit of known web application vulnerabilities used by attackers to access stored credentials.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries may manipulate source code in open-source dependencies for the purpose of compromise to add malicious code to users of the dependency. SSDLC should validate open-source components to prevent the use of malicious or vulnerable dependencies.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries may attempt to access the Cloud Instance Metadata API to collect credentials and other sensitive data. The SSDLC process should ensure that applications and APIs are securely designed, developed, and operated in their cloud environments.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries may query and search through compromised applications to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials. Secure coding practices and secure credential handling may prevent hardcoded/insecurely stored credentials and ensure the that those cloud accounts are not compromised.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries may query and search through compromised applications to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials. Secure coding practices and secure credential handling may prevent hardcoded/insecurely stored credentials and ensure the use of proper encryption for credentials and application data.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries will use T1059 for various command injection attacks through web application interfaces. Securing serverless functions, cloud APIs, and web applications from command injection can help in mitigating this technique.
AIS-04 Secure Application Design and Development mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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This control requires both Cloud Service Providers and customers to implement a Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) with security practices throughout the entire application development process to protect cloud-based applications from cyber threats. Adversaries will use T1190 to exploit vulnerabilities in web applications internet-facing host or system to initially access a network. Proper input validation and secure coding practices can prevent exploitation of web application vulnerabilities.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1195.001 Compromise Software Dependencies and Development Tools
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may manipulate software dependencies and development tools prior to receipt by a final consumer for the purpose of data or system compromise. A vulnerability scanner can be used to identify any third-party issues as outlined in the implementation guidelines.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may attempt to exploit default admin or user accounts in cloud services, SaaS platforms, or cloud-deployed databases that weren't properly secured during setup.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1110 Brute Force
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained. Deprecated hash functions (MD5, SHA1) and weak key derivation make password cracking significantly faster, enabling successful brute force attacks .
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1552 Unsecured Credentials
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may search compromised services or applications to find and obtain insecurely stored API keys for SaaS services or cloud storage encryption keys.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1040 Network Sniffing
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may passively sniff network traffic to capture traffic between microservices, API calls to SaaS platforms, or data transfers between on-premises and IaaS resources that lack proper TLS encryption.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1134 Access Token Manipulation
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may modify access tokens to operate under a different user or system security context to perform actions and bypass access controls. For example, replaying or tampering with a JSON Web Token (JWT) access control token to elevate privileges or abusing JWT invalidation.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may attempt to bypass access controls and elevate privileges to gain unauthorized access. Therefore, testing for improper privilege escalation, such as scenarios where a user can act without authentication or gain administrative rights while logged in as a standard user, can help mitigate these risks.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1548 Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism
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The control outlines several testing approaches, including the use of automated tools, to identify vulnerabilities throughout the software development lifecycle from development to production. It emphasizes testing for risks such as injection attacks and session hijacking, and recommends alignment with industry standards like the OWASP Top 10 to enhance application security. Adversaries may attempt to bypass access controls and elevate privileges to gain unauthorized access. Therefore, testing for improper privilege escalation, such as scenarios where a user bypasses access control checks by modifying the URL, can help mitigate these risks.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1552.005 Cloud Instance Metadata API
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. Adversaries may attempt to access the Cloud Instance Metadata API to collect credentials and other sensitive data. Testing for the unnecessary use of metadata services or restricting and disabling insecure versions of metadata services that are in use may prevent adversary use of this technique. Additionally, adversaries may exploit a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in a public facing web proxy that allows them to gain access to the sensitive information via a request to the Instance Metadata API.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1059.009 Cloud API
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. With proper permissions (often via use of credentials such as Application Access Token and Web Session Cookie), adversaries may abuse cloud APIs to invoke various functions that execute malicious actions.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or application by using techniques such as as SQL injection, command injections, Cross-site scripting (XSS), and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or application by using techniques such as as SQL injection, command injections, Cross-site scripting (XSS), and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF).
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications, internet services, or cloud services, as an authenticated user without needing credentials.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1550.004 Web Session Cookie
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. Adversaries can use stolen session cookies to authenticate to web applications and services. Authentication cookies are commonly used in web applications, including cloud-based services, after a user has authenticated to the service so credentials are not passed and re-authentication does not need to occur as frequently.
AIS-05 Automated Application Security Testing mitigates T1606.001 Web Cookies
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The control describes multiple testing approaches with automated tools to identify vulnerabilities from development through production. The control outlines testing for injection attacks, session hijacking, and aligning with industry standards like OWASP Top 10 to ensure applications are secure. Adversaries may forge web cookies that can be used to gain access to web applications or Internet services. Web applications and services (hosted in cloud SaaS environments or on-premise servers) often use session cookies to authenticate and authorize user access.
AIS-07 Application Vulnerability Remediation mitigates T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services
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The control requires prioritized remediation based on risk assessment and CVSS scores, automated patch management, and integration of remediation tools into CI/CD pipelines to address vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
AIS-07 Application Vulnerability Remediation mitigates T1211 Exploitation for Defense Evasion
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The control requires prioritized remediation based on risk assessment and CVSS scores, automated patch management, and integration of remediation tools into CI/CD pipelines to address vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
AIS-07 Application Vulnerability Remediation mitigates T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access
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The control requires prioritized remediation based on risk assessment and CVSS scores, automated patch management, and integration of remediation tools into CI/CD pipelines to address vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
AIS-07 Application Vulnerability Remediation mitigates T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
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The control requires prioritized remediation based on risk assessment and CVSS scores, automated patch management, and integration of remediation tools into CI/CD pipelines to address vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
AIS-07 Application Vulnerability Remediation mitigates T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain
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The control requires prioritized remediation based on risk assessment and CVSS scores, automated patch management, and integration of remediation tools into CI/CD pipelines to address vulnerabilities as early as possible in the development lifecycle.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1496.004 Cloud Service Hijacking
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications to prevent misuse, abuse, and exploitation. When it comes to Cloud Service Hijacking, adversaries may leverage compromised software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications to complete resource-intensive tasks, which may impact hosted service availability.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1567 Exfiltration Over Web Service
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Adversaries may use an existing, legitimate external Web service to exfiltrate data rather than their primary command and control channel. Security requirements should be in place to mitigate the configuration cloud applications and web services that could be abused to exfiltrate data
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1119 Automated Collection
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. In cloud-based environments, adversaries may also use cloud APIs, data pipelines, command line interfaces, or extract, transform, and load (ETL) services to automatically collect data.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1530 Data from Cloud Storage
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Adversaries may collect sensitive data from cloud storage solutions used for cloud applications.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1528 Steal Application Access Token
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Application access tokens are used to make authorized API requests on behalf of a user or service and are commonly used as a way to access resources in cloud and container-based applications and software-as-a-service (SaaS). The baseline security requirements outlined in the implementation guidance can be used to set usage limits and manage user permissions on cloud applications to prevent access to application access tokens.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1539 Steal Web Session Cookie
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. An adversary may steal web application or service session cookies and use them to gain access to web applications or Internet services as an authenticated user without needing credentials. The baseline security requirements outlined in the implementation guidance can be used to help reduce the impact of stolen cookies.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1550.004 Web Session Cookie
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Web applications and services (hosted in cloud SaaS environments or on-premise servers) often use session cookies to authenticate and authorize user access. Access control and permissions can be mitigations to limit and restrict acceptable users granted to access web applications and services.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1078.004 Cloud Accounts
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion. Access control and account management related to cloud accounts for web applications may mitigate the abuse of legitimate cloud accounts.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1671 Cloud Application Integration
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Adversaries may achieve persistence by leveraging OAuth application integrations in a software-as-a-service environment. Adversaries may create a custom application, add a legitimate application into the environment, or even co-opt an existing integration to achieve malicious ends. Review integrations by restricting or limiting users' ability to carelessly add new application integrations into a SaaS environment before a unapproved or potentially malicious applications is introduced to the cloud environment.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1072 Software Deployment Tools
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Adversaries may gain access to and use centralized software suites installed within an enterprise to execute commands and move laterally through the network. Configuration management and software deployment applications may be used in an enterprise network or cloud environment for routine administration purposes. These systems may also be integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Ensuing proper system and access control isolation for cloud applications through use of group policy may aid in mitigating this technique.
AIS-02 Application Security Baseline Requirements mitigates T1648 Serverless Execution
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This control guidance requires organizations to establish security baseline requirements for different cloud applications. Security requirement examples include access control, encryption, and configuration management for applications. Adversaries may abuse serverless computing, integration, and automation services to execute arbitrary code in cloud environments. Many cloud providers offer a variety of serverless resources, including compute engines, application integration services, and web servers. Access control that can restrict the abuse of serverless functions from users and processes can help with mitigating this technique.