Where It Sits in the Scheme
5 ASOM-Fed techniques reach this countermeasure, across 3 forms of maneuver.
This is the direction the forward mapping cannot answer. A reader who works in D3FEND arrives holding D3-AL and needs to know where it is employed in a scheme of maneuver — not which of MITRE's tactics it belongs to, which they already know.
Reached By
- M3.08 Identity Lifecycle EnforcementM3 Envelopment · T1 Identity
Bind joiner, mover and leaver events to authoritative sources so access follows the person, not the ticket.
- M3.15 Break-Glass Account ControlM3 Envelopment · T1 Identity
Hold emergency accounts under split control with alerting on any use, so the last resort is not the soft target.
- M6.07 Progressive LockoutM6 Delay · T1 Identity
Escalate friction against an identity under attack without handing an attacker a denial-of-service lever.
- M8.06 Cloud Account QuarantineM8 Isolation / Retrograde · T4 Applications and Workloads
Quarantine a cloud account or subscription — revoking roles and cutting peering — as one rehearsed action.
- M8.14 Rapid Offboarding and RevocationM8 Isolation / Retrograde · T7 Workforce
Remove all access from a departing or suspended person in one action, in a time measured against the tempo an insider needs.
Forms That Arrive Here
A countermeasure reached from more than one form is employed more than one way. D3FEND has no notion of a form, so this join exists only here.
- M3 EnvelopmentThe formMake identity, not network location, the decisive plane — surround the adversary with policy.
- M6 DelayThe formBuy decision time and prevent the adversary culminating on the objective.
- M8 Isolation / RetrogradeThe formGive ground deliberately to preserve the force. Degrade gracefully; never fail open.
What This Does Not Claim
That a technique reaches a D3FEND countermeasure says the two describe the same defensive act. It does not say the countermeasure is deployed, configured, or working — that is an assessment finding about your estate, not a property of the framework.
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