Who we are
MITRECaldera.com publishes practical, plain-language information about adversary emulation and modern security validation. Our goal is to make complex concepts easier to understand without removing the context, safeguards, and operational discipline that responsible security work requires.
The website is intended for cybersecurity students, system administrators, defenders, red and purple teams, researchers, and technology leaders who want to understand how controlled simulations can be used to evaluate security controls. We focus on education, configuration awareness, defensive outcomes, and authorized testing—not unauthorized access or harmful activity.
Our mission
Our mission is to make reliable cybersecurity knowledge easier to find, verify, and apply safely. Caldera is a capable framework, but successful use depends on more than installation steps. Teams also need to understand scope, permissions, infrastructure isolation, logging, cleanup, reporting, and the difference between a successful simulation and a genuinely improved defense.
Explain the fundamentals
We break down terminology, components, workflows, and security concepts so readers can build a strong foundation before operating a lab.
Support safer testing
We encourage written authorization, controlled environments, least privilege, monitoring, defined success criteria, and tested recovery plans.
Connect action to defense
Our content emphasizes measurable defensive outcomes such as alert quality, telemetry coverage, response readiness, and remediation evidence.
Keep guidance current
We review important pages when projects, documentation, security advisories, or recommended operational practices materially change.
What we cover
Our coverage is built around the questions practitioners face while planning, deploying, and evaluating a controlled adversary-emulation environment. Depending on the topic, articles may include conceptual explanations, installation notes, configuration guidance, comparisons, troubleshooting, defensive observations, or references to primary documentation.
- Caldera architecture, agents, abilities, adversary profiles, planners, operations, and plugins.
- ATT&CK-aligned adversary emulation, purple-team exercises, and defensive control validation.
- Lab planning, deployment hygiene, access controls, logging, evidence handling, and safe cleanup.
- Detection engineering, incident-response exercises, reporting, and lessons learned.
- Project updates, documentation changes, ecosystem resources, and relevant security advisories.
Security tools should only be used on systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test. Readers are responsible for understanding the legal, contractual, and technical boundaries of every exercise.
How we build trustworthy content
We aim to separate confirmed facts from interpretation. Important technical claims should be checked against primary sources such as official project documentation, maintained source repositories, release notes, advisories, and standards documentation. When we rely on testing or editorial judgment, we try to describe the relevant environment and limitations.
Content is reviewed for clarity, technical consistency, responsible-use implications, and obvious security risks before publication. Substantial corrections are made openly and important pages display an updated date. Our full process is available in the Editorial Policy.
- Primary sources are preferred for version-specific or security-sensitive claims.
- Commands and configurations are evaluated for context, assumptions, and foreseeable risk.
- Sponsored relationships, affiliate links, or material conflicts must be disclosed near relevant content.
- Readers can request a correction by emailing our editorial contact address.
Independence and trademark notice
MITRECaldera.com is an independent informational website. It is not owned, operated, sponsored, approved, or endorsed by The MITRE Corporation, the Apache Software Foundation, or the official Caldera project.
“MITRE,” “MITRE ATT&CK,” “ATT&CK,” “Caldera,” “Apache,” and related names, logos, and marks belong to their respective owners. Their use on this site is descriptive and nominative, helping readers identify the technologies and topics being discussed. No ownership or official relationship is implied.
Caldera was originally developed at MITRE and, in 2026, was contributed to the Apache Incubator. For authoritative project information, releases, licenses, and governance details, readers should consult the official Apache Caldera website, the maintained project repository, and official documentation.
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