MITRE ATT&CK® framework in Log360

Understand attacker behavior and strengthen your overall security posture with Log360’s MITRE ATT&CK framework integration. Gain complete visibility into threat tactics and techniques and the attack life cycle. Enable analysts to map detections to real-world adversary behaviors and respond to threats effectively.

What you can do with Log360

 

Map detections to the MITRE ATT&CK framework:

Correlate suspicious activity, anomalies, and cloud or on-premises events to tactics and techniques.

 

Leverage over 2,000 prebuilt rules:

Detect complex attacks, including insider threats, ransomware, cloud misconfigurations, and multi-stage APTs with MITRE ATT&CK-aligned, context-aware rules.

 

Centralize threat intelligence and UEBA insights:

Correlate global threat feeds with behavioral analytics across your endpoints, cloud, and network from a unified console, enriching alerts and reducing response time.

 

Enhance investigations with AI:

Use Zoho's Zia Insights to map alerts to the MITRE ATT&CK tactics, reconstruct attack timelines, verify patterns and correlate it with other events, and get remediation guidance.

How does Log360 leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework for advanced threat detection and response?

The MITRE ATT&CK framework provides a structured taxonomy of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), for cyber adversaries. This enterprise MITRE ATT&CK matrix gives security teams a unified language to detect, investigate, and respond to attacks systematically.

  • MITRE-mapped detection rules
  • Threat investigation with Zia Insights
  • MITRE-aligned dashboards
  • Automated response with playbooks
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Comprehensive MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules

Log360’s cloud-delivered detection library offers over 2,000 rules mapped to TTPs for enterprise, cloud, and ICS environments. By correlating multiple events across various log sources and leveraging anomaly-based insights, Log360 empowers SOC teams to detect, investigate, and respond to sophisticated threats with precision.

Key capabilities of MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection for threat visibility

  • Detection library: Continuously updated rules categorized by log source and aligned with MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques for extensive coverage.
  • Anomaly and correlation rules: Track multi-step attack patterns, linking initial compromise to lateral movement, privilege escalation, and exfiltration.
  • Advanced mapping: Every rule shows associated MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques for contextual understanding.
  • Custom thresholds and alerts: Analysts can customize and fine-tune rules while maintaining consistent MITRE ATT&CK coverage.

Benefit: Gain end-to-end visibility into adversary behaviors, reduce dwell time, and improve threat response.

Comprehensive MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules

Streamlined threat investigation with Zia Insights

Log360’s AI-powered assistant, Zia, translates raw security data into actionable intelligence by mapping alerts, logs, and incidents to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques. SOC teams can investigate threats faster with contextual summaries, attack timelines, and remediation guidance.

Key capabilities of Zia Insights for MITRE ATT&CK-aligned threat investigation

  • Contextual summaries: Provides concise incident summaries highlighting affected entities, attack vectors, and event sequences.
  • Entity and actor attribution: Automatically identifies users, devices, and IPs involved in suspicious activity.
  • Visual attack timelines: Reconstructs sequences of events, showing the progression of attacks across MITRE ATT&CK-defined stages.
  • Guided investigations: Suggests next steps based on mapped tactics and techniques to accelerate containment.
  • Automated categorization and mitigation: Organizes alerts and logs while providing actionable remediation guidance.

Benefit: Accelerate investigations by reducing hours of log analysis to minutes with AI-driven summaries and guidance.

Streamlined threat investigation with Zia Insights

MITRE ATT&CK-aligned dashboards

Leverage Log360’s dashboards to gain real-time visibility across endpoints, cloud, and network devices. By correlating events with MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, analysts can visualize attack chains, identify high-risk activities, and prioritize responses efficiently.

Key capabilities of MITRE ATT&CK-aligned dashboards:

  • Detection by tactics widget: Maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK tactics such as initial access, execution, persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration, enabling focused threat response.
  • Recent detections widget: Lists flagged events along with rule name, user, device, and mapped MITRE ATT&CK tactic for rapid identification of active adversary behaviors.
  • Top 10 detections by rules widget: Highlights the most frequently triggered rules within the selected timeframe, helping analysts spot recurring attacker patterns.
  • Top 5 users by detections widget: Surfaces users with the highest detection counts, categorized by severity, to identify potential insider threats or compromised accounts.
  • Top 5 log sources by detections widget: Displays the log sources contributing most to detections, enabling analysts to focus on high-risk assets.
  • Detection trends widget: Visualizes detection counts over time, categorized by severity, to track escalation or containment of attacks.
  • Detection pipeline widget: Summarizes detections by severity and shows how many alerts were generated, providing a clear view of the incident load across SOC operations.

Benefit: Gain complete situational awareness, detect complex attack patterns, and proactively monitor multi-stage threats.

MITRE ATT&CK-aligned dashboards

Automated response with MITRE ATT&CK-aligned playbooks

Log360’s playbooks enable SOC teams to orchestrate automated, MITRE ATT&CK-informed responses to security incidents. By integrating detection, contextual insights, and remediation steps, playbooks ensure consistent and efficient handling of high-priority threats.

Key capabilities of MITRE ATT&CK-driven playbooks

  • Ransomware containment: Automatically isolate affected endpoints, stop suspicious processes, and prevent unauthorized file encryption. Predefined playbooks minimize downtime and protect critical data.
  • Adaptive firewall rule automation: Dynamically block malicious IPs or domains by updating firewall rules across Cisco ASA, FortiGate, Palo Alto, and Sophos XG, ensuring rapid containment without manual effort.
  • Brute-force account mitigation: Detect repeated failed login attempts or credential misuse, automatically lock accounts, and trigger alert notifications to prevent unauthorized access.
  • Smart patching and vulnerability response: Identify vulnerable endpoints and automatically enforce patches or configuration changes, reducing the risk of exploitation and maintaining operational continuity.
  • Rogue device quarantine: Detect unauthorized devices connecting to the network, automatically restrict their access, and alert the SOC to prevent lateral movement or sensitive data exposure.
  • USB and removable media enforcement: Monitor and control the use of external drives, automatically block unauthorized transfers, and prevent potential data exfiltration or malware introduction.

Benefit: Respond to threats quickly, reduce manual effort, and maintain MITRE ATT&CK-aligned operational consistency.

Automated response with MITRE ATT&CK-aligned playbooks

Log360 and MITRE ATT&CK: Full-spectrum detection across the attack life cycle

ManageEngine Log360 leverages the MITRE ATT&CK framework to provide end-to-end detection across the entire attack life cycle. By mapping real-world threat behaviors to MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, Log360 empowers security teams to proactively identify and stop threats at every stage, ensuring comprehensive, framework-aligned protection across the enterprise.

  • TA0005 and TA0006: Defense evasion and credential access prevention

    Log360 helps detect and block attempts to bypass security controls, tamper with logs, or steal or misuse credentials, safeguarding high-value accounts and critical systems.

    Example scenario: A firewall policy is deleted after hours, followed by multiple failed logins and a successful authentication on a privileged account.

  • TA0007 and TA0008: Discovery and lateral movement prevention

    Log360 detects and blocks adversary reconnaissance and propagation attempts within the network, preventing attackers from mapping the environment or moving laterally to high-value assets.

    Example scenario: A compromised user initiates multiple RDP sessions to sensitive servers while performing Active Directory enumeration.

  • TA0009 and TA0010: Collection and exfiltration prevention

    Log360 monitors sensitive data access and transfer, helping prevent attackers from collecting or exfiltrating valuable information.

    Example scenario: SQL server backups are executed after hours and transferred to cloud storage or USB drives without approval.

What Log360 detects

  • Unauthorized password changes: Monitors critical accounts for abnormal or unapproved password resets (T1098: Account manipulation, T1556.001: Modify authentication process).
  • Privileged group modifications: Flags suspicious additions or changes to high-privilege groups.
  • Administrative activity anomalies: Establishes baselines for normal administrative behavior and highlights deviations.

What Log360 detects

  • Unauthorized changes and tampering: Monitors firewall, GPO, and security policy modifications including log clearing attempts (T1562: Impair defenses).
  • Brute-force and token misuse: Flags repeated failed logins, suspicious token activity, and unusual privileged account access (T1110: Brute force).
  • Contextual alerts: Correlates user, device, and event data to reveal early compromise attempts and accelerate investigations.

What Log360 detects

  • Abnormal remote and lateral activity: Monitors RDP, SMB, and other remote connections while correlating network flows and logon behaviors to detect lateral movement (T1021: Remote services).
  • Suspicious Active Directory access and enumeration: Flags unusual Active Directory object and share enumeration, and unauthorized logons using stolen or elevated credentials (T1087: Account discovery).
  • Anomalous network patterns: Identifies connections between endpoints that don’t normally communicate, providing early detection of lateral spread.

What Log360 detects

  • Bulk and unusual data operations: Monitors large database queries, file exports, and backup activity, flagging transfers that exceed normal usage patterns (T1005: Data from local system).
  • Suspicious data access and transfers: Detects anomalous account behavior and file movements to personal cloud storage or unencrypted channels (T1048.003: Exfiltration over unencrypted channel).
  • Correlated exfiltration indicators: Correlates endpoint, network, and cloud events to identify early signs of unauthorized data collection.

Beyond MITRE ATT&CK mapping

Log360 doesn’t just align detections with the MITRE ATT&CK framework; it equips organizations to uncover hidden threats, automate responses, and gain actionable insights for faster, smarter security decisions.

 

Scalable and resilient architecture

Handles growing log volumes with distributed, high-availability architecture for uninterrupted log collection, indexing, and analysis.

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Real-time security analytics

Provides centralized visibility across endpoints, networks, and cloud security events, enabling faster threat detection and response with actionable insights.

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Automated incident response

Prebuilt playbooks automated alerts, notifications, and remediation, reducing response times and limiting potential overall damage.

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External and dark web monitoring

Detects brute-force attacks, phishing, port scans, and monitors the dark web for leaked credentials or compromised data.

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Compliance management simplified

Supports over 30 regulations, including the GDPR, HIPAA, and the PCI DSS, with secure log archival and audit-ready compliance reports.

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Flexible and extensible security platform

Integrate seamlessly across endpoints, networks, and cloud workloads, and extend capabilities without interrupting operations.

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    We wanted to make sure that one, we can check the box for different security features that our clients are looking for us to have, and two, we improve our security so that we can harden our security footprint.

    Carter Ledyard

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    The drill-down options and visual dashboards make threat investigation much faster and easier. It’s a truly user-friendly solution.

    Sundaram Business Services

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    Log360 helped detect insider threats, unusual login patterns, privilege escalations, and potential data exfiltration attempts in real time.

    CIO, Northtown Automotive Companies

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    Before Log360, we were missing a centralized view of our entire infrastructure. Now, we can quickly detect potential threats and respond before they escalate.Log360 has been invaluable for improving our incident response and ensuring compliance with audit standards. It’s a game-changer for our team.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a globally recognized knowledge base of adversary TTPs, derived from real-world observations. It helps security teams understand attacker behavior, improve threat detection, and standardize incident response.

Yes. Log360’s no-code rule engine allows you to build custom rules aligned with any MITRE ATT&CK tactic or technique. Advanced correlation rules let you map entire multi-stage attack chains across multiple log sources.

Log360 supports over 750 log sources including Windows/Linux servers, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365), network devices, databases, applications, and security tools. All sources are automatically mapped to relevant MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Yes. Log360 provides full MITRE ATT&CK coverage for SaaS, IaaS, and hybrid environments. Cloud-specific attack techniques are monitored alongside on-premises data, giving analysts unified visibility across the entire infrastructure.

Absolutely. Contextual threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK-aligned correlation distinguish routine activity from adversary behavior, enabling SOC analysts to focus on high-priority alerts and reduce investigation overhead.

By linking alerts, detections, and remediation steps to recognized MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques, Log360 simplifies structured monitoring and audit readiness. This aids regulatory compliance for standards like the GDPR, HIPAA, the PCI DSS, and more.

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