What is this MITRE resource? Per the D3FEND website, this resource is “A knowledge graph of cybersecurity countermeasures.” D3FEND is still in beta and is funded by the Cybersecurity Directorate of the NSA. D3FEND stands for Detection, Denial, and Disruption Framework Empowering Network Defense. At the time of this writing, there are 408 artifacts in the D3FEND matrix. See the below image.