Credential Rotation

Where It Sits in the Scheme

4 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-CRO 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

• M2.12 Secrets ManagementM2 Defense in Depth · T4 Applications and Workloads

  Remove long-lived secrets from code, images and configuration into brokered, rotated, audited storage.

• M3.04 Just-in-Time PrivilegeM3 Envelopment · T1 Identity

  Grant privilege for a bounded task and window, with the grant itself recorded as an event.

• M3.06 Machine and Service Identity GovernanceM3 Envelopment · T1 Identity

  Give non-human identities owners, expiry and scope on the same terms as human ones.

• M7.05 Credential Reset SweepM7 Counterattack · T1 Identity

  Execute a scoped, ordered reset of credentials and tokens across the compromised blast radius.

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.

• M2 Defense in DepthThe formEnsure no single failure is decisive.
• M3 EnvelopmentThe formMake identity, not network location, the decisive plane — surround the adversary with policy.
• M7 CounterattackThe formSeize the initiative and evict before the adversary reaches the objective.

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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