﻿---
title: MITRE ATT&CK coverage
description: View which MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques your detection rules cover.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5650/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/mitre-attack-coverage
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Security
applies_to:
  - Serverless Security projects: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# MITRE ATT&CK coverage
The **MITRE ATT&CK coverage** page shows which [MITRE ATT&CK](https://attack.mitre.org) adversary tactics and techniques are covered by your installed and enabled detection rules, including both Elastic prebuilt rules and custom rules.
How you use this page depends on your goal:
- **Identifying coverage gaps**: Filter to view only enabled rules, then look for light or empty cells to find tactics and techniques where your detection coverage is thin. Use this to prioritize which [prebuilt rules](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5650/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/install-prebuilt-rules) to install or which [custom rules](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5650/solutions/security/detect-and-alert/using-the-rule-ui) to build next.
- **Activating coverage quickly**: Find techniques you care about and [enable installed rules](#security-rules-coverage-enable-rules) directly from the coverage grid, without leaving the page.


## Access the page

Find **Detection rules (SIEM)** in the navigation menu or by using the [global search field](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5650/explore-analyze/find-and-organize/find-apps-and-objects), then go to **MITRE ATT&CK coverage**.
![MITRE ATT&CK coverage page](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/5650/solutions/images/security-rules-coverage.png)


## Read the coverage grid

Mirroring the MITRE ATT&CK framework, columns represent major tactics, and cells within each column represent a tactic's related techniques. Cells are darker when a technique has more rules matching the current filters, as indicated in the **Legend** at the top.
<note>
  The coverage grid only includes detection rules you currently have installed, and only rules that are mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Prebuilt rules that are not installed, and custom rules that are unmapped or mapped to a deprecated tactic or technique, do not appear. You can map custom rules to tactics in **Advanced settings** when creating or editing a rule.
</note>


## Supported MITRE ATT&CK versions

The coverage page maps detections to [MITRE ATT&CK versions](https://attack.mitre.org/resources/updates/) used by Elastic Security.

| MITRE ATT&CK version                                                      | Elastic Security version                                                                         |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [v16.1](https://attack.mitre.org/resources/updates/updates-october-2024/) | 9.0.0-9.0.6, 9.1.0-9.1.3                                                                         |
| [v17.1](https://attack.mitre.org/resources/updates/updates-april-2025/)   | 9.0.7, 9.1.4, 9.2.0                                                                              |
| [v18.1](https://attack.mitre.org/resources/updates/updates-october-2025/) | 9.1.10, 9.2.4, <applies-to>Elastic Stack: Generally available since 9.3</applies-to>, Serverless |


## Filter rules

Use the drop-down filters at the top of the page to control which of your installed detection rules are included in calculating coverage.
- **Installed rule status**: Select to include **Enabled rules**, **Not enabled rules**, or both.
- **Installed rule type**: Select to include **Elastic rules** (prebuilt rules), **Custom rules** (user-created rules), or both.

You can also search for a tactic or technique name, technique number, or rule name in the search bar. The search bar acts as a filter for the coverage grid: only rules matching the search term are included.
<note>
  Searches for tactics and techniques must match exactly, are case sensitive, and do *not* support wildcards.
</note>


## Expand and collapse cells

Select **Collapse cells** or **Expand cells** to change how much information the cells display. Cells always include the technique's name and the number of sub-techniques covered by enabled rules. Expand the cells to also display counts of not-enabled and enabled rules for each technique.
<note>
  The counts inside cells are affected by how you filter the page. For example, if you filter the **Installed rule status** to only include **Enabled rules**, then all not-enabled rule counts are 0 because those rules are filtered out.
</note>


## Enable rules

You can quickly enable all the rules for a specific technique that you've installed but not yet enabled. Select the technique's cell, then select **Enable all disabled** in the popup that appears.

## Learn more about techniques and sub-techniques

For more information on a specific technique and its sub-techniques, select the technique's cell, then select the title in the popup that appears. This opens a new browser tab with the technique's MITRE ATT&CK documentation.