Mitre and Its Mad Ave Inspired Naming
June 25, 2021
I keep a list of neologisms, jargon, and odd ball phrases. Examples include anting (crows which allow ants to clean up the feathery friends of horror movie script writers), industrial athlete (a Bezos bulldozer rah rah for warehouse workers who are sometimes allowed to visit the facilities), and pillbillies (residents of West Virginia and Kentucky who are addicted to opioids). I have others too including AIM (asymmetric information management) which I don’t understand at all.
Now I have a new one: ATT&CK. This is a coinage from a wordsmith at Mitre (the old MIT Research outfit) and its “Engenuity” unit. Those folks are heirs to assorted Boston poets I think. I am not sure what the letters mean, but here’s the explanation in “Tool Lets Users Supplement Mitre ATT&CK Knowledge Base with Their Own Threat Intel”:
Called ATT&CK Workbench, the free and open-source tool was designed to reduce the barriers preventing defenders from aligning their aggregated TTP intel with Mitre ATT&CK’s content. Officially announced today via press release and blog post, Workbench is a creation of Mitre Engenuity’s Center for Threat-Informed Defense, with contributions from Center members AttackIQ, HCA Healthcare, JPMorgan Chase, Microsoft and Verizon.
I want to point out that as far as my DarkCyber research team has been able determine, exactly none of the threat intelligence outfits alerted their customers to the SolarWinds’ misstep.
I have a buzzword for this in my collection too: Nonperformative. I think this means, “May not work.”
Stephen E Arnold, June 24, 2021
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