The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has debuted a tool designed to help researchers, analysts and network defenders map threat actors’ tactics, techniques and procedures to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute developed the Decider tool with MITRE’s ATT&CK team, the McLean, Virginia-based company said Wednesday.

Decider is a web application that serves as a companion to the document Best Practices for MITRE ATT&CK Mapping and enables cyber defenders to facilitate mapping to the framework by walking them through guided questions about the activity of adversaries.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with HSSEDI and MITRE in offering the Decider tool to better guide ATT&CK mapping and help the cybersecurity community accurately understand adversary activities and make well-informed decisions that raise our collective defense,” said Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA.

HSSEDI is a federally funded research and development center that MITRE operates for the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Cyber Command has signaled interest in establishing an independent center focused on collecting and sharing foreign cyber intelligence, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.

“We really needed an all-source approach from the Department of Defense side. And so as each of the services have their own intelligence center, there was just a gaping hole. Space set up its own, but cyber didn’t have one. And so how this will unfold is still a work in progress, but the mission analysis portion is done,” Col. Candice Frost, commander of the Joint Intelligence Operations Center at USCYBERCOM, told FNN in an interview.

The proposed center would be a joint effort with the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency and would be based in part on the National Air and Space Intelligence Center with a focus on international adversaries’ offensive cyber capabilities.

Frost said Congress may need to address questions over authorities, funding levels, workforce and other factors with regard to the establishment of the new cyber intelligence center.

“It’s just that we have validated that the need exists, and it’s going forward,” she said of the proposed center.

The Defense Information Systems Agency has completed a prototype initiative to develop a zero trust network access architecture that uses a set of commercial technologies to provide network security across the U.S. military.

DISA said Wednesday the Thunderdome prototyping effort has demonstrated and proven the ability of secure access service edge, software defined-wide area networks and other commercially available tools to enhance security and network performance.

Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of DISA and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the agency aims to help the U.S. maintain a cybersecurity advantage “above our adversaries across all the warfighting domains.”

“Thunderdome will help us achieve this advantage by making DOD’s networks more secure and thereby more challenging for threat actors to gain access to DOD systems. And our Thunderdome prototype validates our success,” Skinner added.

As part of the program, DISA deployed the Thunderdome prototype to nearly 1,500 users at three locations to test its remote and on-premises capabilities.