WC-T-02Level 1 · Signal
Third-party app they use was breached
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A Threat signal from the SaaS security layer (SSE, vendor breach feed): a vendor whose app this person uses disclosed a breach.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- 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
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- GV.SC-07
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1199
The definition, in detail
Definition
The person's credentials, data and OAuth tokens at that vendor count as exposed until rotated.
Example
A file-transfer vendor announces a breach; the feed matches 140 employees with active accounts there, and the identity team rotates every linked token.
How it is measured
- Source
- Web, CASB & DLP
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- Vendor breach feed
- Risk domain
- Web, cloud and SaaS
- Provenance
- Verizon DBIR
How it is used
Programs count "Third-party app they use was breached" per person from Web, CASB & DLP and read it beside the other Web, cloud and SaaS signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 1 sequence and 1 breach scenario.
A "third-party app they use was breached" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Third-party app they use was breached" (WC-T-02), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/wc-t-02-third-party-app-they-use-was-breached
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The initial assessment
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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.