Attack paths into a research biotech

The paths an attacker could take through a research biotech to its crown jewels — its data lake, lab notebook and sequencing — and the fixes that cut them.

Brightfield Biotech, all paths view of the map Open the interactive map

Views in this map

  1. 1
    All pathsEvery way in, from the internet to the crown jewels, across six weak spots.
  2. 2
    Shortest pathThe five hops to cut first: a phished laptop to the research data lake.
  3. 3
    After fixesThree chokepoints cut — MFA, the flat lab network, the over-privileged account.

All paths ‹ › Shortest path ‹ › After fixes

Flows to play

  • Phish to research dataA chain from a phished scientist to the research data lake, hop by hop, each step tagged with its ATT&CK tactic. In every view; in After fixes it stops at the first fixed step.

The model behind it

55 records of 8 types. Every box on the map is one of them, so the filters and the record panel read the same data.

  • Assets 22
  • ATT&CK techniques 8
  • Weaknesses 6
  • Controls 6
  • Identities 5
  • Teams 4
  • Detections 3
  • Threat actor 1

Filters

ATT&CK tactic and Exploitability: pick a value and everything else fades.

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