A brief history and evolution of ATT&CK
The ATT&CK Framework is obviously the main portion of the book, so let’s start with the basics and learn about the history, purpose, categories, and overview of different models within this chapter.
The MITRE ATT&CK Framework was founded in 2015. It started off as a total of 9 tactics and 96 techniques and quickly gained traction for how threats and attacks were categorized and organized in security. It currently stands at version 11, released in April 2022, which has 14 tactics, 191 techniques, 386 sub-techniques, and 134 groups, and covers 680 pieces of software. It remains one of the top comprehensive knowledge bases out there. Over the years, it has included specific operating systems and different types of infrastructures and environments, making it a more practical framework for categorizing threats against your environment as a whole. The growth from 2015 to 2022 alone shows the amount of work that has gone into identifying...