Attack Flow
PublishedProblem
Defenders often track adversary behaviors atomically, focusing on one specific action at a time. This makes it harder to understand adversary attacks and to build effective defenses against those attacks.
Solution
Built a language to describe sequences of adversary techniques (attack flows) and developed an Attack Flow Builder tool.
Impact
Help defenders and leaders understand how adversaries operate and compose atomic techniques into attacks to better understand defensive posture.
Project Resources
Published: 03 March 2022
Funding Research Participants
Non-Profit Research Participants
Project Summary
Defenders typically track adversary behaviors atomically, focusing on one specific action at a time. While this is a good first step toward adopting a threat-informed defense, adversaries usually use multiple actions in sequence—we call these sequences attack flows. Toward the goal of visualizing, analyzing, and sharing attack flows, the Attack Flow project is developing a data format for describing sequences of adversary behaviors, a set of attack flow examples, and a GUI-based attack flow builder tool.
