MITRE ATT&CK® has been recognized with the IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for Practice, honoring cybersecurity capabilities that measurably advance the field through operational impact, innovation, and broad community adoption.
Presented at the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco, the award recognized Blake Strom, Katie Nickels, Jamie Williams, and Adam Pennington "for contributions to the development and success of MITRE ATT&CK and its contribution to the global cybersecurity community."
The IEEE Computer Society Cybersecurity Award for Practice recognizes individuals and small teams whose work has generated transformative cybersecurity capabilities with demonstrated real-world impact.
Originally developed at MITRE in 2013, ATT&CK provides a freely available knowledge base of real-world adversary tactics and techniques used by cybersecurity defenders, threat intelligence analysts, researchers, educators, and technology providers around the world. Today, ATT&CK is used in more than 190 countries across all seven continents and has become foundational to cyber threat intelligence, detection engineering, adversary emulation, security operations, workforce development, and security product evaluation.
This recognition reflects both ATT&CK’s operational impact and the global community of defenders, researchers, educators, and partners who continue to shape and use it. MITRE continues to maintain ATT&CK as a public resource to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation in cybersecurity.