Framework

MITRE ATLAS for AI Defenders

MITRE ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for AI Systems) is a knowledge base of tactics, techniques, and case studies for adversarial machine learning. Modeled on MITRE ATT&CK. Used by defenders to model AI-specific threats.

Top tactics

  • Reconnaissance
  • Resource Development
  • Initial Access
  • ML Model Access
  • Execution
  • Persistence
  • Privilege Escalation
  • Defense Evasion
  • Credential Access
  • Discovery
  • Collection
  • ML Attack Staging
  • Exfiltration
  • Impact

Use cases

Threat-modeling sessions, adversarial-test planning, SOC detection content authoring, IR playbook design, board-level threat communication.

Posture Check checkpoint

ATLAS techniques surface across multiple Posture Check dimensions. Most directly: prompt (Q11–Q15), model (Q16–Q20), and runtime (Q21–Q25).

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