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M1.14 · M1 Screen / Guard · 14 of 15

Supplier Exposure Monitoring

What It Does

Monitor the suppliers and components that reach into the estate for breach disclosure, advisory and exposure, because their compromise is your compromise.

Observable indicator. A supplier incident reaches the agency from monitoring, not from the news.

Where It Sits

A technique is chosen from inside a form and emplaced on one layer. Both are the catalog’s own declarations; the position is counted in catalog order.

  • Form of maneuverM1 Screen / GuardGain early warning and buy reaction time before the adversary touches key terrain.
  • Terrain layerT9 Supply ChainThe lines of communication. Key terrain: Suppliers with production access, component provenance, the update path into the estate.
  • Position in the form14 of 15M1 carries 15 cataloged techniques; this is the 14th in catalog order.

Phases It Is Employed In

Employed in 2 of the campaign’s six phases. A phase named here means at least this technique is live in it — not that the form it belongs to is the main effort.

  • Phase 0ShapeContinuous terrain preparation, zero-trust hardening, partnerships, threat intelligence.
  • Phase IDeterVisible hardening, a deception grid, and a stated attribution posture.

Controls That Assess It

The controls the catalog names against this technique. They are what an assessor would test to establish that it is emplaced and working — the indicator above is what shows it is working, which is a different question.

  • LC-1 Supplier Terrain RegisterLines of Communication — To make third parties positional, so that supplier risk is assessed against what a supplier can reach rather than against what they were contracted to do.
  • LC-2 Component ProvenanceLines of Communication — To know where deployed components came from and what is inside them, so that a compromise disclosed anywhere can be located here.
  • TM-6 Terrain CurrencyTerrain Management — To keep the overlay current against both the clock and the change, so that planning is conducted against ground as it currently is.
  • FO-6 Supply Chain ObligationFederal Obligations — To discharge the statutory supply chain risk obligation, and to make the boundary of its scope explicit rather than assumed.

In MITRE D3FEND

What this technique is called in MITRE’s countermeasure ontology. The join runs technique-to-technique: D3FEND catalogs countermeasures, and the thing with a countermeasure’s shape here is the technique, not the control.

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.

Related Techniques

The catalog declares no relation for this entry, and no other entry names it — the inverse is derived here, so an incoming edge would show up even though this one never declared it. The techniques below share its assessment surface, which is the nearest adjacency the data supports.

Assessed Alongside

Not a declared relation: these are the techniques whose assessing controls overlap this one’s, ranked by how much of the two assessment surfaces coincide. Showing 6 of 13 that share at least one control.