Tidal Cyber Partners with CGS CyberDefense to Scale Threat-Led Defense Adoption

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Tidal Cyber has entered a strategic partnership with CGS CyberDefense to accelerate enterprise adoption of Threat-Led Defense, pairing Tidal’s procedure-level adversary intelligence platform with CGS’s cybersecurity advisory services. The collaboration is designed to help organizations move away from alert- and IOC-driven security programs toward defenses explicitly mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and real-world attacker behavior. By integrating Tidal’s analytics with CGS’s consulting capabilities, customers in highly targeted, regulated sectors such as financial services, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, and critical infrastructure will be able to assess their existing control stack against active threats, identify coverage gaps, and prioritize investments based on demonstrated adversary tactics and techniques rather than theoretical exposure models. Rick Gordon, Tidal Cyber’s co-founder and CEO, said the partnership enables security leaders to make more confident, risk-based decisions that directly reduce residual risk and improve the efficiency of security spend.

At the core of Tidal Cyber’s value proposition in this partnership is its Procedures Library, which aggregates tens of thousands of real-world observations of adversary techniques and procedures, and its NARC AI engine, which automatically converts unstructured cyber threat intelligence, incident response findings, and red-team or penetration test outputs into structured, ATT&CK-aligned adversary procedures. These capabilities power Tidal’s Coverage Maps and workflow tools, allowing enterprises to quantify how well current controls defend against active attacker behaviors. CGS CyberDefense will use these outputs to translate insight into execution, guiding program improvements, board-facing risk narratives, and measurable security outcomes. CGS CEO Chris Correia emphasized that clients are demanding defensible, evidence-based security decisions tied to how attackers actually operate, and that Tidal’s platform provides a level of adversary realism missing in most programs. For Tidal Cyber, the partnership extends its go-to-market reach through a specialized advisory channel, reinforces its position as a category leader in Threat-Led Defense, and could deepen platform adoption among large, compliance-intensive enterprises seeking to optimize security operations and capital allocation in the face of evolving threats.