Resources for Applying Threat-Informed Defense

Jon Baker, General Manager, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, MITRE Engenuity:

Jon is responsible for the Center’s strategy and its outcomes as he convenes the global cybersecurity community to advance the state of the art and the practice in threat-informed defense. Jon co-founded the Center as a privately funded research and development organization where he partners with sophisticated cybersecurity teams to systematically advance the global understanding of adversary tradecraft and apply that knowledge to improve the community’s ability to defend against those threats. Jon has extensive experience leading research teams and collaborating with industry to advance cybersecurity capabilities. Jon led MITRE’s team in the early development of the OASIS STIX and TAXII standards while supporting the Department of Homeland Security. He was a cocreator of OVAL, a standard language for describing and checking for the presence of misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and other endpoint artifacts.

Suneel Sundar, Director of R&D, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, MITRE Engenuity:

Suneel Sundar is a Senior Principal Engineer in the MITRE Corporation’s Cyber Operations division. In this role, he leads and executes research makes cyber attackers’ lives difficult in collaboration with MITRE engineers, private sector partners, and U.S. government organizations. Some of Suneel’s greatest hits include Security Stack Mappings for Google Cloud Platform and AWS, and the Center’s Insider Threat Knowledge Base. Suneel created and ran MITRE’s elite cyber operations incubator for early-career staff, Cyber New Professionals. Suneel previously founded the Cyber Intelligence functions at the largest energy utility in the U.S. and the largest payment processor in the world, and solved impossible math problems with the National Security Agency. Suneel teaches Iyengar yoga in San Diego and over Zoom.