iCOUNTER

iCOUNTER is a cyber risk intelligence provider founded in 2020 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company helps organisations counter targeted cyber-attacks through precision risk intelligence and real-time management of third-party and ecosystem risk. Its work covers cyber threat intelligence, third-party cyber risk management, adversary tracking and attribution, real-time threat detection, attack surface monitoring and the use of AI-enhanced human intelligence. Adversary tracking is conducted worldwide.

The company's flagship product is CTOS (Counter Threat Operating System), a platform that operationalises ecosystem risk in real time. It detects active threats directed at vendors, suppliers, managed service providers, SaaS providers, partners and the wider digital ecosystem, and uses AI-enhanced human intelligence to create, collect and correlate emerging threats against customer profiles. The stated purpose is to give organisations actionable insight into what adversaries know about their ecosystem. Reported figures include 94% alert noise reduction and an average lead time of 17 days ahead of active threats.

iCOUNTER tracks more than 340 adversary groups globally. Its customers and target sectors include Fortune 500 enterprises, financial services firms and government agencies. The company emerged from stealth mode ahead of its launch and positions itself as defining a new category in cybersecurity, described internally as the "Third Wave", with an emphasis on innovation over legacy third-party risk tools that document incidents after the fact.

The company is led by John Watters, formerly President of Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud). Its stated mission centres on countering targeted cyber-attacks and on real-time counter-threat operations.