What It Does
Define what must be true before anything comes back — no restoration on hope.
Observable indicator. Nothing is restored until its preconditions are evidenced.
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 maneuverM8 Isolation / RetrogradeGive ground deliberately to preserve the force. Degrade gracefully; never fail open.
- Terrain layerTX Cross-CuttingThe enablers of movement. Key terrain: The telemetry pipeline, the orchestration layer, the rules of engagement.
- Position in the form11 of 17M8 carries 17 cataloged techniques; this is the 11th in catalog order.
Phases It Is Employed In
Employed in one phase of the campaign. 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 IVStabilizeEradicate, verify, and preserve availability through the recovery.
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.
- SM-5 Branches and SequelsScheme of Maneuver — To decide contingency responses before contact, so that the decision loop under pressure is a selection rather than a design exercise.
- CG-4 Findings DispositionCommand and Governance — To ensure every finding reaches a decision, so that the open set reflects work in progress rather than accumulated neglect.
- EN-5 Eradication and Transition to RecoveryEngagement and Pursuit — To ensure the adversary is actually gone before the mission is restored, and that the transition is a decision rather than a drift.
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.
- D3-RO Restore ObjectRestore tactic
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 19 that share at least one control.
- 2 shared controlsM7.07 Persistence SweepM7 Counterattack · T2 Devices
- CG-4
- EN-5
- 2 shared controlsM7.11 Eviction SequencingM7 Counterattack · TX Cross-Cutting
- EN-5
- SM-5
- 1 shared controlM1.07 Partner and Advisory IntakeM1 Screen / Guard · TX Cross-Cutting
- CG-4
- 1 shared controlM2.13 Backup Isolation and ImmutabilityM2 Defense in Depth · T5 Data
- SM-5
- 1 shared controlM3.14 Entitlement RecertificationM3 Envelopment · T1 Identity
- CG-4
- 1 shared controlM7.05 Credential Reset SweepM7 Counterattack · T1 Identity
- SM-5