Cybersecurity:

Center for Threat-Informed Defense

ctid collaborative r&d

Changing the Game on the Adversary

The Center is a non-profit, privately funded research and development organization operated by MITRE Engenuity. 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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Summiting the Pyramid

Many analytics are dependent on specific tools or artifacts. Adversaries can easily evade these with low-cost changes that exploit the dependencies. This project has developed a method to evaluate analytics relative to the adversary’s cost to evade. We further created approaches and tips for defenders to make their analytics less evadable. We demonstrated the methodology with a core set of analytics.

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Year in Review

2022 IMPACT REPORT

The 2022 Impact Report highlights nine new freely available resources that will help organization 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.

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Collaborative R&D in the Public Interest

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