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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Threat-Informed Defense for the Financial Sector

Connect adversarial threat mitigations to cybersecurity program resources tailored to the financial sector, namely the Cyber Risk Institute Profile.

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2024 Impact Report

As we celebrate the 5th anniversary of the launch of the Center, we start with our Founders and the alliance of Center Participants that has followed in their footsteps building a legacy of impactful research and development and nurturing a global community of threat-informed defenders. Over the past five years, the Center has welcomed more than 750 researchers from 46 global organizations through our doors to work side-by-side in pursuit of the release of 40 open-source research projects attracting the attention of tens of thousands of ATT&CK community members on social media, by word of mouth,and at conferences and trainings worldwide. Each research project is consistently received by the community with praise, accolades, and sincere gratitude for our work.

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INFORM: Best Practices Assessment Tool

The INFORM Project (formerly known as M3TID) identified a set of 5 best practice components for each of the 3 Dimensions of TID. For each of those best practices, a spectrum of 5 maturity levels were defined to describe implementing that best practice from a least threat-informed to a most threat-informed implementation. The Best Practices assessment allows you to evaluate your current posture to better understand the efficacy of existing or planned defensive measures and identify defensive gaps.