ByTony Bradley
ByTony Bradley,
Senior Contributor.
Mitre doesn’t crown winners. It doesn’t score products. And it doesn’t endorse vendors. That hasn’t stopped a familiar ritual from playing out each year when the Mitre ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation results are released: every vendor with a recognizable name finds a way to claim victory.
Some highlight specific phases of the attack chain, others trumpet detection volume, speed or coverage. The point is, with enough caveats and a willing marketing team, just about everyone walks away with a headline that reads “we won.” As I wrote a few years ago, it’s a little like hearing a baseball stat that says a player leads the league in batting average against left-handed pitchers on Tuesdays in August. It’s technically true — but not exactly definitive.
