From securityaffairs.co
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D3FEND is a new project promoted by MITRE Corporation aimed to add a knowledge graph of cybersecurity countermeasures to the ATT&CK Framework.
The project was announced this week by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), it proposes a standard approach for the description of defensive cybersecurity countermeasures for techniques used by threat actors.
“D3FEND is a knowledge base, but more specifically a knowledge graph, of cybersecurity countermeasure techniques. In the simplest sense, it is a catalog of defensive cybersecurity techniques and their relationships to offensive/adversary techniques.” reads the project page published by MITRE. “The primary goal of the initial D3FEND release is to help standardize the vocabulary used to describe defensive cybersecurity technology functionality.”