As cyber criminals, crime syndicates, and threat actors pummel the internet with malware, phishing attacks, and various malicious campaigns, the need for organizations to understand these attacks and learn how to detect and prevent them has grown exponentially over the past 10 years. No longer can organizations wait for and trust some random blog post about an attack to learn what they should do or not do. They need accurate, verifiable, and actionable intelligence that is created and delivered in cyber relevant time.

In today’s episode of Smarter Everything I will be talking with Jon Baker, the co-founder of MITRE Engenuity and its Center for Threat-Informed Defense.

The Center is a research and development organization where Jon partners with sophisticated cybersecurity teams to systematically create practical resources that help all organizations improve their defenses. Jon has extensive experience leading research teams and collaborating with industry to advance cybersecurity capabilities globally.

He has done amazing work leading several key programs, departments, and initiatives at MITRE, for example he led MITRE’s Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation Department and oversaw the work on CALDERA and MITRE ATT&CK®. He also led MITRE’s team in the early development of the OASIS STIX and TAXII standards while supporting the Department of Homeland Security. In addition he led MITRE’s security automation team through the development of SCAP, he managed the CVE team, and was a co-creator of OVAL, a standard language for describing and checking for the presence of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and other endpoint artifacts.