What Is MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Learn the Essentials
Explore the MITRE ATT&CK Framework to identify cyber adversary behavior, strengthen threat detection, and support proactive defense strategies. Learn how security teams use this globally recognized matrix to close gaps, improve threat intelligence, and enhance organizational resilience.

What You’ll Learn
This What Is MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Learn the Essentials will teach you:
- MITRE ATT&CK structure: Understand the matrix, tactics, and techniques.
- Threat detection: Identify gaps using detection logic and defense evasion techniques.
- Threat actors & groups: Profile adversaries using intelligence reports.
- Security posture: Use the framework for assessments and security gap analysis.
- Cyber kill chain: Map attacker behavior across all phases.
- ATT&CK Navigator: Practice real-world threat analysis and overlays.
- Incident response: Integrate ATT&CK into threat hunting and detection rules.
- Industrial control systems: Explore ATT&CK’s applications beyond enterprise environments.
Included in the What Is MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Suitable for the Following Careers
Course Content
Section 1: Introduction
Section 2: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Section 3: Other Learning Resources
Section 4: Jan 2024 Update - Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems
Audio Version of Training
OPEN FULL CURRICULUM
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Description of What Is MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Learn the Essentials
This course gives you a solid foundation in the MITRE ATT&CK Framework, a powerful tool for understanding how cyber attackers operate and how defenders can stop them. You’ll learn the core structure of the framework, how it maps to adversary tactics and techniques, and how to apply it in real-world threat scenarios.
Through hands-on exercises using ATT&CK Navigator and real threat intelligence, you’ll analyze attacker behaviors, correlate them with observed incidents, and use that information to enhance detection logic and defense strategies. This course also explores how ATT&CK integrates with other cybersecurity methods like the cyber kill chain and threat hunting.
- Use the ATT&CK matrix to identify adversary behavior
- Detect lateral movement and privilege escalation
- Enhance detection efficacy through logic and pattern recognition
- Understand how threat actors avoid detection
- Perform proactive security gap analysis
- Build cyber threat intelligence based on real-world attacks
By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the MITRE ATT&CK Framework and its globally accessible knowledge base to evaluate threat intelligence reports, identify adversary groups, analyze attack tactics, and detect signs of compromise across remote systems, strengthening your organization’s cyber defense posture.
Who is This Course For
Ideal for security professionals, SOC analysts, and threat hunters seeking to enhance detection capabilities and apply structured threat intelligence using the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Also great for anyone transitioning into cyber defense roles or exploring adversarial behavior.
Course Instructor
StationX has been an award-winning, leading provider of online cybersecurity training and consultancy services since 1999. Through hands-on learning experiences, StationX offers the most engaging and effective way to learn real-world concepts and skills essential for a successful cyber career.
StationX has built and aggregated over 1,000 classes, virtual labs, practice tests, and exam simulations covering cybersecurity, hacking, penetration testing, certifications, Linux, networking, and cloud computing. Their training has benefited more than 250,000 students in 195+ countries, earning them the prestigious AI Cyber Security Educator of the Year 2020 Award.
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Testimonials
Sameer K.
I finally understand how adversaries gain initial access and move laterally. The course mapped every technique clearly to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix. As a junior threat hunter, this was game-changing.
Anna T.
The ATT&CK Navigator labs and case studies were incredibly useful. I can now identify defense evasion techniques and relate them to real-world attacks. Essential for security controls tuning!
Liam R.
This training gave me the common language and logic needed to work with our detection engineers. I can now use ATT&CK data to support our proactive defense strategies.
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