CR-EP-02Level 2 · Cohort
Malicious-site visitor on a vulnerable device
- Targeted
- Easy
- Endpoint and device
- Level 2 · Cohort
People who visited a known-malicious website from a device that carries an exploitable, unpatched vulnerability.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Cohort class
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- Targeted
- Difficulty
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- Easy
A cohort is Easy when every one of its signals is available from standard connectors, Medium when any signal needs setup and none needs an integration or a survey, and Hard when any signal needs an integration or a survey.
- Dimensions Every signal answers one of 3 questions.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0 (from its signals)
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- DE.CM-01
- ID.RA-01
- MITRE ATT&CK (from its signals)
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- T1189
- T1190
The definition, in detail
Definition
The visit supplies the exploit; the vulnerability supplies the foothold.
Example
A marketing coordinator opened a compromised ad landing page from a laptop two months behind on browser updates.
How it is measured
- Formula
- WC-B-01 + EP-T-02
- Class
- Targeted
- Difficulty
- Easy: every signal is available from standard connectors
- Risk domain
- Endpoint and device
- Sources
- Web, CASB & DLP, Vulnerability management
How it is used
Programs count the people who match WC-B-01 + EP-T-02 at once as a targeted cohort in Endpoint and device, trend that population, and point the response at it; it feeds 2 breach scenarios.
Membership is evidence that the signals in the formula describe the same person at once. It is a population to act on; on its own it confirms no incident.
Continue exploring
"Malicious-site visitor on a vulnerable device" (CR-EP-02), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/cohorts/cr-ep-02-malicious-site-visitor-on-a-vulnerable-device
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one cohort.
The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.