Enhance Vulnerability Management with Flashpoint’s ATT&CK^© Mapping

Given the current state of the cyber security landscape, effective and integrated security operations are essential. Each vulnerability represents a potential exposure that allows threat actors to leverage infostealers, ransomware, and other cyber attacks. Therefore, it is critical that organizations stay ahead of attackers by identifying potential exposures and incidents quickly and proactively to stop or close the gaps.

To accomplish this, organizations need an understanding of adversarial behavior, tactics and techniques. However, for security teams to incorporate these elements into their vulnerability management programs, they must adopt a multi-faceted approach that goes beyond public vulnerability intelligence sources alone.

MITRE ATT&CK^© and Flashpoint: A Powerful Combination

To help organizations achieve  proactive vulnerability management, we’ve integrated the MITRE ATT&CK© framework, a globally recognized knowledge base that documents adversarial tactics and techniques, with Flashpoint’s best-in-class exploit intelligence.

Exploit intelligence is crucial for effective security, enabling organizations to focus on vulnerabilities with the highest potential for harm. However, prioritization requires more than just understanding the exploit itself.

Flashpoint’s Advanced Vulnerability Intelligence provides the crucial context that organizations need. Security teams can now understand how an exploit works and its availability, but also how it aligns with attacker behaviors and the tactics favored by specific threat actors and advanced persistent threat groups.

The integrated MITRE ATT&CK© mapping within Flashpoint’s platform enables organizations to identify potential exploitation paths, map vulnerabilities to likely attacker behaviors, and develop pre-emptive mitigation strategies. For example, by correlating CVEs with specific ATT&CK© techniques like “Privilege Escalation,” defenders can prioritize patching efforts and implement targeted monitoring.

This approach is further augmented by Flashpoint Ignite. Ignite provides a visual representation of ATT&CK© techniques employed by attackers, offering deeper insights into attack patterns and enhancing overall defense postures.

The Power of Context: Making MITRE ATT&CK^© Actionable

Flashpoint’s Comprehensive CPE Coverage

To ensure that organizations can make this data actionable, Flashpoint’s database is streamlined with Common Platform Enumerations (CPEs) for all our vulnerability entries. CPEs offer a structured method for describing and classifying software and hardware components. Together with Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) IDs, they form the foundation of vulnerability identification.

Flashpoint’s dedicated vulnerability research team meticulously ensures that each newly disclosed vulnerability has the correct CPE assigned. In many cases, they are added well before official CPEs are made available in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). In addition, Flashpoint also covers issues missed in the CVE naming convention, and incorporates solution-focused analyst notes for any issue without CPE coverage to accurately provide vulnerability assessment in a customer’s environment.

†

Fully Mapping to CVE and Beyond

MITRE ATT&CK© vulnerability mapping also includes Flashpoint’s expansive collection of non-CVE vulnerabilities, which affect major vendors, including many third-party libraries, zero-days, and in-the-wild exploits actively being used by threat actors. This means that using Flashpoint, security teams have unparalleled visibility into the entire vulnerability disclosure landscape, with additional insights into threat actor attack patterns and behavior.

Proactively Defend Against Threats Using Flashpoint

By integrating Flashpoint’s improved CPEs, our entire collection of CVEs (and non-CVE IDs), and MITRE ATT&CK© mapping, organizations can achieve proactive security operations. Request a demo today to see how Flashpoint can transform your vulnerability management and exposure identification program, allowing you to go beyond the limitations created by CVE and NVD.