Turning Intelligence Into Action with Threat-Informed Defense
Sept 22, 2025
Cybersecurity is undergoing a necessary transformation from reacting to threats as they arise to proactively anticipating and addressing them through Threat-Informed Defense (TID) . This shift emphasizes operational discipline over accumulating more tools. It involves using threat intelligence to streamline existing technologies, enhance the quality of security signals, and focus efforts on the threats most relevant to each organization. The goal is to continuously identify and close security gaps by combining insights from external threat data with internal defense capabilities. How do you put TID into practice? The team at Filigran has broken down the TID framework into a six-stage pipeline to develop actionable chunks for cybersecurity leaders. In this article, we share the details so that your security teams can leverage it too to support TID. What is Threat-Informed Defense? First advocated by MITRE , Threat-Informed Defense (TID) leverages MITRE ATT&CK framewo...
