Center for Threat-Informed Defense

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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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Security Stack Mappings – Hardware-Enabled Defense

The Security Stack Mappings – Hardware-Enabled Defense project demonstrates full stack threat-informed defense, from the hardware board to the software bytes.

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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.

Collaborative R&D in the Public Interest


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