Organizations face constant pressure to protect customers, employees, and partners while threats change daily. Tool stacks grow larger, attack surfaces expand to cloud and remote work, and security teams are expected to prevent breaches, detect intrusions, and prove resilience at the same time. Skills shortages and process bottlenecks slow response, and visibility gaps across endpoints, identities, and SaaS leave room for attackers to move quietly. The result is an operations burden that keeps teams on the back foot.
Even with billions invested in prevention and detection technologies, many programs remain reactive. Policies struggle to keep pace with new TTPs, alert volumes create fatigue, and teams spend valuable time chasing false positives instead of prioritizing the risks that matter. Leaders still need clear evidence to justify budgets and demonstrate measurable risk reduction. The path forward is to align security operations to business impact, continuously validate controls against real attack techniques, reduce noise through better correlation and automation, and focus effort on verified exposures that threaten critical assets. This approach turns security from a reactive posture into a program that proves what works, fixes what does not, and communicates progress in terms the business understands.
This is why we at Picus believe that organizations need to break the status quo. By adopting a more threat-centric mindset, security teams can assess their environment against the latest threats and understand where their most relevant security gaps are. This approach helps to take more proactive decisions and therefore increase cyber resilience significantly.
Picus has long followed MITRE Engenuity, MITRE’s tech foundation for public good, and its Center for Threat-Informed Defense’s impressive work in helping organizations globally to adopt threat-informed defense. We share the belief that innovation and collaboration across the security community are essential to help keep organizations safe against the latest cyber threats.
This is why we are proud to support the Center as a Founding Gold Affiliate by sharing and contributing to its research.
“As a founding member, Picus played a critical role in getting the Center’s affiliate program up and running,” said Jon Baker, director of R&D at the Center for Threat-Informed Defense. “We look forward to working with the team at Picus to advance threat-informed defense around the world.”
“We are delighted to support the research of the center and advance our shared mission of helping security teams to be more proactive and threat-centric”, said Volkan Erturk, Co-Founder and CTO of Picus Security. “This partnership further supports our commitment to help our customers operationalize threat intelligence and better leverage the MITRE ATT&CK framework.”
We look forward to collaborating with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense and fellow affiliates and to the advancements this community will drive for the security community.
To learn more about the Center for Threat-Informed Defense, as well as MITRE Engenuity’s affiliate program, please visit https://ctid.mitre-engenuity.org/affiliates/