assist in enhancing security throughout the software development lifecycle, and to support the needs of developers,
testers and educators, the CWE and Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) are cosponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Cyber Security and Communications as part of the
Software Assurance strategic initiative, and the efforts are managed by MITRE. The CAPEC website provides a publicly
available catalog of attack patterns along with a comprehensive schema and classification taxonomy. CAPEC will