Center for Threat-Informed Defense

Changing the Game on the Adversary

The Center is a non-profit, privately funded research and development organization operated by MITRE. The Center’s mission is to advance the state of the art and the state of the practice in threat-informed defense globally. Comprised of participant organizations from around the globe with highly sophisticated security teams, the Center builds on MITRE ATT&CK®, an important foundation for threat-informed defense used by security teams and vendors in their enterprise security operations.

The results of our research & development projects are freely available to the public.

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Secure AI

A collaboration with MITRE ATLAS™ to advance security for AI–enabled systems that takes a threat-informed approach, enables rapid exchange of new threat information, and provides mitigation strategies.

Newest Resource

2023 Impact Report

The 2023 Impact Report highlights seven new freely available resources that will help organizations implement a threat-informed defense and showcases Center participant perspectives on the value of collaborative R&D. The Center’s unique approach to public interest R&D unites industry with the common purpose to advance threat-informed defense.