Cybersecurity has become a battle of machines against machines, where AI is leveraged by both attackers and defenders. With the expansion of the digital economy, security teams, already understaffed due to the talent shortage, must face a constant increase in the number of vulnerabilities and attack paths. The demands often exceed their capacity to triage, prioritize, and respond effectively.

Traditional threat filtering approaches leave SOC teams overwhelmed by too many alerts, with insufficient resources to handle them and a backlog of security issues to address. The challenge is not just detecting threats, but knowing where to focus efforts and how to respond quickly.

To win this AI war, security teams must adopt a smarter approach: a strategy centered on strategic passage points, known as chokepoints, those critical nodes where multiple attack vectors converge.

At TEHTRIS, we apply this chokepoint philosophy through the TEHTRIS XDR AI PLATFORM, which automatically detects and neutralizes threats in real time.

By strengthening these strategic intersections, it allows for the identification and elimination of multiple threats simultaneously, thereby optimizing resources, strengthening security posture, and improving overall organizational efficiency. This approach helps SOC teams reduce complexity, streamline operations, and anticipate cyber threats.

Understanding cybersecurity chokepoints

The term "chokepoints" comes from military strategy, where controlling narrow passages allows for slowing down or blocking an enemy's advance.
In cybersecurity, a chokepoint is a key location in a network or device where multiple attack paths converge before reaching critical systems or data. Identifying and securing these convergence points makes it possible to block multiple attack methods simultaneously, thereby reducing risk, strengthening security, and facilitating threat monitoring.

By securing these intersections, organizations can:

✔ Stop multiple threats at once : Strengthen security where it matters most.


✔ Reduce noise and false positives: Focus on essential alerts without being overwhelmed.


✔ Optimize resources: Protecting chokepoints requires less effort than defending every possible entry point.

The benefits of a chokepoint-focused strategy

SOC teams are often overwhelmed by alert fatigue and a lack of resources. Focusing on chokepoints offers a pragmatic solution by concentrating their efforts where they will have the greatest impact.

1. Maximize impact with targeted actions

By securing these strategic points, organizations can address multiple risks at once. Rather than trying to fix every non-exploitable attack path, focusing on these critical intersections allows you to take control of multiple attack vectors in a single action.

2. Better resource allocation

With limited resources, redirecting efforts toward chokepoints ensures optimal returns in terms of risk reduction.

3. Reducing alert fatigue

The constant influx of alerts leads to fatigue and increases the risk of analyst error. A chokepoint-centered approach filters out less critical threats, allowing SOC teams to better prioritize and respond to the most pressing attacks.

Applying the chokepoint strategy at TEHTRIS

The TEHTRIS XDR AI PLATFORM is designed to automate threat detection and neutralization in real time, leveraging artificial intelligence to anticipate potential attacks.
Drawing on TEHTRIS's expertise in Threat Intelligence, research, and development, our platform maps attack paths across cloud, endpoint, network, and identity infrastructures, identifying the highest-risk chokepoints.

This methodology allows you to:

• Detect and stop lateral movement in the early stages to prevent attackers from advancing.

• Direct remediation efforts toward the most critical threats first.

• Manage threats proactively, reducing reliance on manual intervention and improving overall efficiency.

• Ensure an automated and predictable response of high quality.

Outlook MITRE ATT&CK evaluations

During the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK evaluations, TEHTRIS was able to test its cybersecurity strategies against advanced adversaries, including ransomware groups and state-sponsored actors.
This year, the focus shifted to post-attack analysis, marking a departure from traditional early detection . Despite this shift, the TEHTRIS XDR AI PLATFORM demonstrated its effectiveness by achieving 100% visibility in these evaluations, thanks to its chokepoint strategy.
However, interpreting the results generated significant noise, making it difficult to extract actionable insights for CISOsTo meet this challenge, TEHTRIS collaborated with the MITRE Corporation in an exclusive webinar to help companies better interpret these results and use them for strategic decision-making.

Exclusive webinar with MITRE: Exploring the chokepoint strategy

To delve deeper into our approach and our takeaways from the MITRE ATT&CK evaluations, we hosted an exclusive webinar in partnership with the MITRE Corporation. This session highlighted the benefits of the chokepoint philosophy, particularly regarding detection accuracy, response speed, and the optimization of security operations.
This partnership with the MITRE Corporation underscores the major advantages of focusing on key attack intersections to build more resilient cybersecurity.

Adopting a collaborative defense

At TEHTRIS, we are convinced that proactive defense is essential for effective risk management. The results of the MITRE ATT&CK evaluations confirm the importance of:


• Prioritizing real-time threat neutralization rather than reactive post-attack analysis.
• Leveraging AI to lighten the workload for SOC teams by automating detection and triage.

• Applying the chokepoint strategy to improve detection and reduce unnecessary alerts.

Thanks to the integration of Neural Process Automation (NPA) into our proprietary AI, CYBERIA, we optimize event processing and transform raw data into actionable intelligence.

Our goal: to provide security teams with high-performance solutions that strengthen cyber resilience.

For a detailed analysis of our MITRE ATT&CK results, check out our blog: TEHTRIS MITRE ATT&CK Analysis

To watch our webinar with the MITRE Corporation on the chokepoint strategy, click here: TEHTRIS & MITRE Webinar

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