Threat Defense
What Procedures Actually Represent and Why They Are Critical to Your Defensive Strategy
Most security teams can map an attack to a technique in seconds. Very few can explain exactly how that attack would be executed in their environment ...
From Asset Visibility to Attacker Disruption: Why Knowing What You Have Isn’t Enough
Assets visibility provides awareness of what exists in your defensive stack. It does not determine whether your defenses can actually disrupt an attack. Asset visibility is just an inventory list ...
What We Mean by Procedures (And Why Precision Matters)
Why Terminology Confusion Still Undermines Modern Defense Cybersecurity discussions are filled with familiar language. Security teams talk about the latest threats and threat landscape, attack techniques and behavior, adversary tradecraft, and detection ...
Mapping Your Defenses to What You Need, Not What You Inherited
There is a deceptive sense of security that comes with a crowded security architecture. We look at our environments and see a landscape filled with multiple vendor tools, SIEM dashboards pulsing with ...
Findings From The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report
The Tidal Cyber 2025 Threat-Led Defense Report represents a groundbreaking shift in cybersecurity analysis by placing real adversary behavior at the forefront of defense strategies. Read the Full Report, or an overview ...
Extracting the How: Scaling Adversary Procedures Intelligence with AI
Labeling adversary activity with ATT&CK techniques is a tried-and-true method for classifying behavior. But it rarely tells defenders how those behaviors are executed in real environments ...
Why LLMs Alone Can’t Do Threat Comprehension: What Specialized Models Like NARC Add
Security leaders want machines that can read adversaries the way analysts do. There is clear business value in AI-powered automation engines that can parse threat reports, extract the behaviors that matter, and ...
Natural Attack Reading and Comprehension (NARC): A Pillar for Threat-Led Defense
Machines can now read what analysts once had to interpret by hand. Every threat report, DFIR writeup, and red-team finding hides the procedural “how” behind an attack, but extracting that insight at ...
