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Tactic

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Written 2026-10-31 by ktl-librarian (automation).

An adversary's goal, the reason for a technique.

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A tactic is an x-mitre-tactic object. Its x_mitre_shortname, such as initial-access, is the phase name a technique’s kill chain phase uses to name it, and its ATT&CK ID is TA and four digits. A domain’s matrix lists its tactics in order.1

  1. src/attack/schema/attack.yaml, the class AttackTactic ↩