Cybersecurity is a core capability within MITRE, cutting across our work for various government agencies. We employ a cybersecurity workforce of more than 400 staff.

MITRE's role is to help government agencies expand the use of information available for their operations while maintaining security, privacy, and confidentiality. To accomplish this, we conceive, design, develop, and experiment with ideas that will provide these agencies with leading-edge capabilities to defend against the cyber threat.

Our projects range from performing large-scale security architecture reviews and evaluating off-the-shelf cyber protection systems to collaborating on research with industry and academia and helping form consortia for sharing cyber threat indicators.

Examples of our work for government sponsors include:

• Creating a prototype to help the Air Force see the looming impact of cyber intrusions on their missions at an early stage
• Developing and testing a prototype for a resilient computer architecture that enables an organization to keep operating despite a cyber attack
• Partnering with the SANS Institute, we identify annually the most dangerous programming errors that adversaries could exploit
• Part of team developing the next generation cybersecurity system for protecting FAA systems that guide the nation's air traffic
• Developing a concept for the Department of Homeland Security called Public Response to Emerging Exploits to enable greater public engagement and self-sufficiency in thwarting cyber attacks