MITRE has launched the Embedded Systems Threat Matrix (ESTM), a new security framework meant to help organizations defend the embedded systems that sit inside products like industrial controllers, medical devices, robotics, transportation systems, and energy infrastructure. Think of it as an ATT&CK-style “playbook,” but tailored to hardware and firmware realities—it organizes the tactics and techniques attackers use (or are likely to use) against embedded architectures so teams can spot weak points and plan defenses more systematically. MITRE says ESTM is designed to be easy to plug into existing security programs and to cover both well-known and emerging attack paths.

The release also positions ESTM as part of a broader design-and-modeling toolkit: it’s meant to work alongside MITRE’s EMB3D Threat Model, giving defenders a more complete way to threat-model embedded products and analyze attack paths. MITRE says it developed ESTM in collaboration with the U.S. Air Force’s Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapon Systems (CROWS) and is encouraging the wider cybersecurity community to contribute improvements. SecurityWeek notes the framework has been significantly enhanced over earlier iterations and refers to the current mature version as ESTM 3.0.

Source: https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-launches-new-security-framework-for-embedded-systems/