Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (CERATR1778495552)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Cerner Corporation's Breach and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Cerner Corporation Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Cerner Corporation breach identified under incident ID CERATR1778495552.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Cerner Corporation's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cerner-corporation, the number of followers: 393743, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 12253 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 782 and after the incident was 721 with a difference of -61 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Cerner Corporation and their customers.
Atrium Health recently reported "Atrium Health Data Breach via Third-Party Vendor", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Atrium Health disclosed a data breach affecting approximately 4,035 North Carolina patients after a third-party vendor, Cerner Health, exposed sensitive information.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing Names, medical records, Social Security numbers, with nearly 4035 records at risk.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
Overall, the incident is a reminder of why proactive monitoring and strong governance matter.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Supply Chain Compromise (T1195) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating third-party vendor, Cerner Health, exposed sensitive information. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Gather Victim Identity Information: Credentials (T1589.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating compromised data may include...Social Security numbers. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating names, medical records, and Social Security numbers compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating data breach affecting approximately 4,035 North Carolina patients and Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating third-party vendor...exposed sensitive information (likely cloud-based). Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Manipulation: Stored Data Manipulation (T1565.001) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating medical records compromised (potential manipulation risk) and Data Destruction (T1485) with lower confidence (30%), supported by evidence indicating no details on extent of breach or data integrity. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Cerner Corporation Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cerner-corporation/incident/CERATR1778495552
- Cerner Corporation CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cerner-corporation
- Cerner Corporation Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/ceratr1778495552-cerner-health-atrium-health-breach-january-2014/
- Cerner Corporation CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/cerner-corporation/history
- Cerner Corporation CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article315699866.html
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf