Katie Nickels

The ATT&CK Translator

MITRE ATT&CK threat intelligence, and making CTI actionable

Rating

82Impact score

Technical depth84

Defensive craft94

Research86

Influence88

FromUSA

Era2015–present

Domains

Threat intelligenceDetection engineeringATT&CK

Scouting report

Was the threat intelligence lead for MITRE ATT&CK during the years it became the shared vocabulary defenders use to describe adversary behaviour, then went to Red Canary as director of intelligence. Teaches the SANS cyber threat intelligence course and spends most of her public work on the unglamorous question of how an intelligence report turns into a detection someone actually deploys.

Curator’s note

ATT&CK gave the blue team a language. This is the card for the person who taught it.

Sources

01MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
02Katie Nickels — SANS Institute sans.org
03Katie Nickels — Red Canary redcanary.com