ATT&CK Mitigations to D3FEND Technique Mappings

The D3FEND team created this mapping in order to help users navigate between the two knowledgebases.

ATT&CK ID ATT&CK Mitigation Related D3FEND Techniques Comment
M1013 Application Developer Guidance A future release of D3FEND will define a taxonomy of Source Code Hardening Techniques.
M1015 Active Directory Configuration
D3-ANCI Authentication Cache Invalidation
D3-DTP Domain Trust Policy
D3-UAP User Account Permissions
M1015 scope is broad, touches on an wide variety of techniques in D3FEND.
M1016 Vulnerability Scanning Future D3FEND releases will model the scanning and inventory domains.
M1017 User Training Modeling user training is outside the scope of D3FEND.
M1018 User Account Management
D3-LFP Local File Permissions
D3-MAC Mandatory Access Control
D3-SCP System Configuration Permissions
M1019 Threat Intelligence Program Establishing and running a Threat Intelligence Program is outside the scope of D3FEND.
M1020 SSL/TLS Inspection
D3-NTA Network Traffic Analysis
D3FEND models this as an infrastructure dependency to support D3-NTA.
M1021 Restrict Web-Based Content
D3-DNSAL DNS Allowlisting
D3-DNSDL DNS Denylisting
D3-FA File Analysis
D3-ITF Inbound Traffic Filtering
D3-NTA Network Traffic Analysis
D3-OTF Outbound Traffic Filtering
D3-UA URL Analysis
M1021 scope is broad, touches on an wide variety of techniques in d3fend.
M1022 Restrict File and Directory Permissions
D3-LFP Local File Permissions
M1024 Restrict Registry Permission
D3-SCP System Configuration Permissions
M1025 Privileged Process Integrity
D3-BA Bootloader Authentication
D3-DLIC Driver Load Integrity Checking
D3-MAC Mandatory Access Control
D3-PSEP Process Segment Execution Prevention
M1026 Privileged Account Management
D3-DAM Domain Account Monitoring
D3-LAM Local Account Monitoring
D3-SPP Strong Password Policy
M1027 Password Policies
D3-OTP One-time Password
D3-SPP Strong Password Policy
M1028 Operating System Configuration
D3-PH Platform Hardening
M1029 Remote Data Storage IT disaster recovery plans are outside the current scope of D3FEND.
M1030 Network Segmentation
D3-BDI Broadcast Domain Isolation
D3-ET Encrypted Tunnels
D3-ISVA Inbound Session Volume Analysis
D3-ITF Inbound Traffic Filtering
M1031 Network Intrusion Prevention
D3-ITF Inbound Traffic Filtering
D3-NTA Network Traffic Analysis
D3-OTF Outbound Traffic Filtering
M1032 Multi-factor Authentication
D3-MFA Multi-factor Authentication
M1033 Limit Software Installation
D3-EAL Executable Allowlisting
D3-EDL Executable Denylisting
M1034 Limit Hardware Installation
D3-IOPR IO Port Restriction
M1035 Limit Access to Resource Over Network
D3-NI Network Isolation
M1036 Account Use Policies
D3-AL Account Locking
D3-ANCI Authentication Cache Invalidation
D3-ANET Authentication Event Thresholding
D3-AZET may be related (is potentially related though not called out in ATT&CK definition.)
M1037 Filter Network Traffic
D3-NI Network Isolation
M1038 Execution Prevention
D3-DLIC Driver Load Integrity Checking
D3-EAL Executable Allowlisting
D3-EDL Executable Denylisting
D3-PSEP Process Segment Execution Prevention
M1039 Environment Variable Permissions
D3-ACH Application Configuration Hardening
D3-SFA System File Analysis
M1040 Behavior Prevention on Endpoint
D3-ANET Authentication Event Thresholding
D3-AZET Authorization Event Thresholding
D3-JFAPA Job Function Access Pattern Analysis
D3-RAPA Resource Access Pattern Analysis
D3-SDA Session Duration Analysis
D3-UDTA User Data Transfer Analysis
D3-UGLPA User Geolocation Logon Pattern Analysis
D3-WSAA Web Session Activity Analysis
M1041 Encrypt Sensitive Information
D3-DENCR Disk Encryption
D3-ET Encrypted Tunnels
D3-FE File Encryption
D3-MENCR Message Encryption
M1042 Disable or Remove Feature or Program
D3-ACH Application Configuration Hardening
D3-EDL Executable Denylisting
D3-MAC Mandatory Access Control
M1043 Credential Access Protection
D3-HBPI Hardware-based Process Isolation
M1044 Restrict Library Loading
D3-SCF System Call Filtering
D3-SCF is one possible way to filter library loading.
M1045 Code Signing
D3-DLIC Driver Load Integrity Checking
D3-EAL Executable Allowlisting
D3-SBV Service Binary Verification
M1046 Boot Integrity
D3-BA Bootloader Authentication
D3-TBI TPM Boot Integrity
M1047 Audit
D3-DAM Domain Account Monitoring
D3-LAM Local Account Monitoring
D3-SFA System File Analysis
M1047 scope is broad, touches on an wide variety of techniques in d3fend.
M1048 Application Isolation and Sandboxing
D3-DA Dynamic Analysis
D3-HBPI Hardware-based Process Isolation
D3-MAC Mandatory Access Control
D3-SCF System Call Filtering
"Sandboxing" is often used to describe a detection environment which includes some forms of analysis (see D3-DA.)" Many forms of isolation (e.g., quarantining) are more static in nature and simply limit software's access to system resources.
M1049 Antivirus/Antimalware
D3-FCR File Content Rules
D3-FH File Hashing
D3-PA Process Analysis
Process Analysis and subclasses.
M1050 Exploit Protection
D3-AH Application Hardening
D3-EHPV Exception Handler Pointer Validation
D3-ITF Inbound Traffic Filtering
D3-SSC Shadow Stack Comparisons
M1051 Update Software
D3-SU Software Update
M1052 User Account Control
D3-MAC Mandatory Access Control
M1053 Data Backup Comprehensive IT disaster recovery plans are outside the current scope of D3FEND.
M1054 Software Configuration
D3-ACH Application Configuration Hardening
D3-CP Certificate Pinning
M1055 Do Not Mitigate
M1056 Pre-compromise
D3-DE Decoy Environment
D3-DO Decoy Object