Choosing the right cybersecurity vendor is one of the first and most effective steps you can take to optimize breach protection for your organization or your clients. There is no independent test that cybersecurity leaders trust more than the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations to understand the current security vendor landscape and determine which solutions are most effective.
Cynet continues to achieve exemplary results in the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations. After achieving 100% Detection Visibility and 100% Analytic Coverage with no configuration changes in 2023, and in 2024, delivering 100% Detection Visibility and 100% Protection, Cynet has now extended its leadership in the most comprehensive evaluation yet. The 2025 round spanned 90 malicious sub-steps across Windows, Linux, and newly-tested cloud based, AWS environments, and Cynet again achieved exceptional results with 100% Detection Visibility in Initial Run, 100% Protection in Initial Run, and 100% Technique-Level Coverage in Initial Run with zero detection false positives and zero configuration changes.
While these results on their own are impressive, it is important to note that MITRE does not rank vendors or declare “winners.” Cybersecurity leaders must interpret the data to determine which solution best fits their team’s unique needs.
What is the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation?
MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that supports private sector companies “solving problems for a safer world.” Their annual ATT&CK Evaluation simulates multiple real-world scenarios emulating real Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups and is regarded as the most unbiased technical test of security vendor systems.
- MITRE emulates attacks in a controlled lab environment to evaluate how a vendor’s system behaves against a set of threats introduced in the exact same manner.
- The tests are conducted in real-time, without external, extraneous factors influencing the results, to replicate the conditions of real-world deployment.
This approach helps evaluate how effectively a system can detect the discrete steps that are commonly used by adversaries to carry out an attack. Since MITRE uses the techniques of real threat groups, each technique presented represents what is likely to happen in a real-world scenario.
The Evaluation allows vendors to demonstrate whether their system detects the threats presented as well as the information provided with each detection.
Who Participated?
2025 MITRE ATT&CK Vendor Participation
Participants in the Enterprise 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation included:
- Acronis
- AhnLab
- Crowdstrike
- Cyberani
- Cybereason
- Cynet
- ESET
- Sophos
- Trend Micro
- WatchGuard
- WithSecure
2024 MITRE ATT&CK Vendor Participation
Participants in the Enterprise 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation included:
- AhnLab
- Bitdefender
- Check Point
- Cisco
- Cybereason
- Cynet
- ESET
- HarfangLab
- Microsoft
- Paloalto
- Qualys
- SentinelOne
- Sophos
- TEHTRIS
- ThreatDown
- Trellix
- Trend Micro
- WatchGuard
- WithSecure
This year, eleven vendors took part in the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations. Some recognizable vendors like Microsoft, Palo Alto, and SentinelOne were noticeably absent from participating, citing a lack of resources, prioritizing customer initiatives, or changing roadmap priorities.
“It’s not my place to speculate on vendor participation, even if their reasoning this year seems at odds with their participation every single year previously,” says Cynet CTO Aviad Hasnis, who led Cynet’s team in the 2025 Evaluation. “Cybersecurity leaders can reach their own conclusions about whether massive, mature organizations like Microsoft have the capacity to participate in an independent assessment without interrupting support or compromising protection for customers.”
“What I can say for certain is this,” he continues. “At Cynet, we believe that independent testing is a customer priority, greatly influences our roadmap, and provides important 3rd-party validation that builds trust. The security community deserves proof of performance, and that’s exactly what MITRE’s transparent format facilitates. We participate in MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations because the results strengthen our innovation roadmap, validate the advantages we enable for Cynet partners and customers, and increase their confidence to defend against sophisticated cyberattacks.”
KEY RESULTS
Cynet delivered 100% Detection Visibility in the Initial Run, flagging every attack event with no configuration changes, delays or false positives.
Detection rate is a fundamental measure of efficacy for endpoint defense. A missed step at any point in the attack sequence can allow the attack to expand and ultimately result in a full-blown breach, costly downtime, or other catastrophic consequences.
This year’s evaluation included 90 malicious sub-steps executed across Windows, Linux, and AWS cloud environments, making it the most comprehensive ATT&CK test to date. Cynet detected every single one of the 90 sub-steps, and importantly, MITRE validated each detection at the highest possible fidelity level: Technique. This distinction matters. Technique-Level Coverage provides precise, actionable insight into exactly what an adversary is doing, without ambiguity or generic classifications.
For SOC analysts, partners, and customers, these results translate directly into operational confidence. Technique-Level Detections provide the deepest contextual understanding of attacker behavior, giving teams unmatched visibility and clarity throughout investigations. With Cynet, they see more, understand more, and act faster with fewer distractions.
Detection False-Positive Tests
False-positives slow security teams down and drain precious time and resources. A key part of MITRE’s evaluation is measuring how accurately a platform distinguishes benign activity from real threats. MITRE included 17 legitimate, non-malicious sub-steps designed to mimic everyday IT behavior, and Cynet correctly ignored all of them. Our zero detection false positives (without configuration changes) demonstrate the precision of our unified, AI-powered platform and its ability to deliver high-fidelity alerts without creating noise or distraction.
Configuration Changes
Furthermore, 90 detections were performed without the need for configuration changes. This means no finetuning or analyst intervention was required for successful detection, reflecting complete visibility right out-of-the-box for Cynet partners and customers.
Protection Rate
Protection Rate reflects whether a vendor successfully blocked each MITRE test, where each test consists of multiple attacker actions. Importantly, a test is recorded as “blocked” even if the block happens late in the sequence, for example, on the final action in the test. That means Protection Rate is a useful indicator of whether a vendor can stop the scenario at all, but it doesn’t necessarily show how early the vendor stopped the attacker within the test.
To add that missing context, MITRE introduced the Entry Vector and Impact Zone breakdown. This distinction sheds light on where in the kill chain protection occurred. Blocking at the Entry Vector means stopping the scenario at the earliest stages, before the attacker can establish execution and trigger downstream behavior. Blocking only in the Impact Zone can still count as a “blocked test,” but it may occur after harmful effects are already in motion, such as credential access attempts, disruption, or integrity-impacting actions. Simply put, Protection Rate tells you whether the test was ultimately stopped; Entry Vector vs. Impact Zone tells you how far the attacker got before it was stopped.
The Protection scenario comprised 5 attack steps. Cynet blocked every one of the 5 attack steps at the Entry vector, ensuring no malicious activity could execute, no credentials were stolen, and no data exfiltrated.
Performance Worth Proving
Cynet participates in the MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation because our customers deserve proof, not claims. Even as other vendors cited customer priorities as a reason not to take part in the 2025 evaluation, we believe independent testing IS a critical customer priority as it’s a core part of delivering a safer, more trusted security experience.
Cynet’s ability to deliver consistent results three years running demonstrates a focus on execution and outcomes. Our unified detection-and-prevention architecture correlates signals across the attack chain, delivers high-fidelity, ATT&CK-mapped detections out of the box, and converts them into fast, reliable protections with minimal tuning. Cynet embeds AI capabilities to help cut noise and prioritize what matters, so outcomes stay consistent at scale.
Every aspect of Cynet’s AI-Powered Platform is engineered in pursuit of a vision to give every organization the cybersecurity peace of mind they need to focus on what matters most. By validating a level of performance that pricier platforms can’t achieve, we believe the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation results bring that vision one step closer to reality.
