Threat-Led Defense Starts with Procedures, Not Techniques

The document argues that aligning defenses solely to MITRE ATT&CK techniques can create false confidence and noisy detections, and advocates for procedure-level intelligence that captures specific commands, parameters, and methods adversaries use. It introduces Tidal Cyber’s Threat-Led Defense platform and Procedures Library, which map detections and controls to granular adversary behaviors, visualize coverage gaps, validate controls, and optimize configurations through a continuous feedback loop—enabling measurable, evidence-driven improvements across EDR, SIEM, and IAM stacks.