# MITRE MITRE is a nonprofit organization operating federally funded research and development centers and producing public technical resources used across cybersecurity, systems engineering, aviation, health, and national security. ## Cybersecurity role MITRE maintains [[MITRE ATT&CK]], a widely used knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques. Its 2024 disclosure that its own research environment had been penetrated is included in [[welcome]] as institutional context demonstrating that sophisticated organizations remain vulnerable. ## Boundary The use of MITRE terminology or tools does not imply MITRE participation in an event. Knowledge-base matching supplies classification, not attribution.