Selecting the right cybersecurity vendor is one of the first and most effective steps in improving breach protection for an organization or its customers. Among independent assessments, MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations remain one of the most trusted resources for cybersecurity leaders seeking to understand the current security vendor landscape and determine which solutions best match their needs.
The 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation has now been officially released. Cynet continues to deliver exemplary performance in the MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluations. In 2023, Cynet achieved 100% Detection Visibility and 100% Analytic Coverage with no configuration changes. In 2024, the platform delivered 100% Detection Visibility and 100% Protection. In 2025, Cynet completed MITRE’s most comprehensive evaluation to date. This year’s round covered 90 malicious actions across Windows, Linux, and newly tested cloud-based AWS environments. Cynet again achieved exceptional results: 100% Detection Visibility in the Initial Run, 100% Protection in the Initial Run, and 100% Technique-Level Coverage in the Initial Run, with zero detection false positives and zero configuration changes.
While these results are impressive on their own, several points should be noted:
- MITRE does not rank, score, or rate vendors, and it does not declare “winners.” Cybersecurity leaders need to interpret the data to determine which solution best fits the specific needs of their teams.
- The results reflect MITRE’s observations of the product configuration submitted for evaluation at that time. Cynet’s products and configurations continue to evolve, and production results may vary depending on the version, deployment choices, and customer environment.
- MITRE’s official results and methodology are available on the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations website under Enterprise 2025.
What Is the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation?
MITRE is a not-for-profit organization that supports private sector companies in “solving problems for a safer world.” Its annual ATT&CK Evaluation simulates multiple real-world scenarios by emulating actual Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups. It is widely regarded as one of the most unbiased technical assessments of security vendor systems.
- MITRE emulates attacks in a controlled lab environment to assess how each vendor’s system behaves against the same set of threats, introduced in the same manner.
- The tests are conducted in real time, without external or unrelated factors influencing the results. This helps replicate the conditions of a real-world deployment.
This approach helps evaluate how effectively a system detects the individual steps that adversaries commonly use during an attack. Since MITRE uses techniques associated with real threat groups, each technique presented reflects activity that is likely to occur in a real-world scenario.
The Evaluation gives vendors an opportunity to demonstrate whether their systems detect the presented threats and what information is provided with each detection.
Who Participated?
Participants in the Enterprise 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation included:
- Acronis
- AhnLab
- Crowdstrike
- Cyberani
- Cybereason
- Cynet
- ESET
- Sophos
- Trend Micro
- WatchGuard
- WithSecure
This year, eleven vendors took part in the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations.
Cynet’s participation in MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations helps strengthen the company’s innovation roadmap, validate the advantages delivered to Cynet partners and customers, and increase confidence in defending against sophisticated cyberattacks.
KEY RESULTS
Cynet delivered 100% Detection Visibility in the Initial Run, flagging every attack event without configuration changes, delays, or false positives.
Detection rate is a fundamental measure of endpoint defense effectiveness. A missed step at any point in the attack sequence can allow an attack to expand. This can ultimately lead to a full-scale breach, costly downtime, or other severe consequences.
This year’s evaluation included 90 malicious actions executed across Windows, Linux, and AWS cloud environments, making it the most comprehensive ATT&CK test to date. Cynet detected every one of the 90 actions. Importantly, MITRE validated each detection at the Technique level. This distinction matters. Technique-Level Coverage provides precise and 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 deep contextual understanding of attacker behavior, giving teams greater visibility and clarity throughout investigations. With Cynet, teams can see more, understand more, and act faster with fewer distractions.
Detection False-Positive Tests
False positives slow down security teams and consume valuable 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 actions designed to mimic everyday IT behavior, and Cynet correctly ignored all of them. Zero detection false positives, achieved without configuration changes, demonstrate the precision of Cynet’s unified XDR platform and its ability to deliver high-fidelity alerts without generating unnecessary distractions.
Configuration Changes
In addition, all 90 detections were performed without the need for configuration changes. This means successful detection required no fine-tuning or analyst intervention. The result reflects complete out-of-the-box visibility for Cynet partners and customers.
Protection Rate
Protection Rate indicates whether a vendor successfully blocked each MITRE test, with each test consisting of multiple attacker actions. Importantly, a test is recorded as “blocked” even if the block occurs late in the sequence, for example, during the final action in the test. This means Protection Rate is a useful indicator of whether a vendor can stop the scenario overall. However, it does not necessarily show how early the vendor stopped the attacker within the test.
To provide that missing context, MITRE introduced the Entry Vector and Impact Zone breakdown. This distinction shows where protection occurred within the kill chain. 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 actions that affect integrity. In simple terms, Protection Rate shows whether the test was ultimately stopped. Entry Vector versus Impact Zone shows how far the attacker progressed before being stopped.
The Protection scenario consisted of 5 attack steps. Cynet blocked all 5 attack steps at the Entry Vector, preventing malicious activity execution, credential theft, and data exfiltration.
Performance Backed by Evidence
Cynet participates in the MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation because customers deserve proof of effectiveness. Independent testing is a key part of ensuring a more reliable security experience.
Cynet’s ability to demonstrate consistent results for three consecutive years confirms its focus on execution and outcomes. Cynet’s unified detection-and-prevention architecture correlates signals across the entire attack chain, delivers high-fidelity ATT&CK-mapped detections out of the box, and converts them into fast, reliable protection with minimal tuning. Cynet integrates AI capabilities to reduce unnecessary alerts and prioritize what truly matters, helping maintain consistent results even across large-scale infrastructures.
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