For the third year in a row, Microsoft successfully demonstrated industry-leading defense capabilities in the independent MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) Evaluations.
As the attack surface evolves on a near-daily basis, threat actors are creating more advanced techniques targeted across domains such as endpoints, identities, emails, documents, and cloud apps, requiring security solutions with the capability to automatically analyze threat data across these domains and build a complete picture of the attacks. The 2020 ATT&CK Evaluations concentrated on advanced threat actors known to the industry as FIN7 and Carbanak (also called Carbon Spider). This year’s rigorous evaluation included new benchmarks of detection and protection simulations of more than 174 steps across the attack chain, affecting both Windows client endpoints, servers, and, for the first time, Linux devices.