iCOUNTER, founded in 2020 and based in Dallas, provides cyber risk intelligence and its CTOS platform for real-time third-party and ecosystem threat detection.
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 detection of threats emerging from third parties and the wider digital ecosystem. Its focus is proactive counter-threat operations rather than static risk assessments, and it has described its approach as a new category it terms the “Third Wave” of cybersecurity.
Its flagship product is CTOS (Counter Threat Operating System), a platform that operationalises ecosystem risk in real time by detecting active threats directed at vendors, suppliers, managed service providers, SaaS providers and partners. CTOS combines AI-enhanced human intelligence with threat detection and correlation, mapping emerging threats against customer profiles to show what adversaries know about an organisation’s ecosystem. Technical work spans cyber threat intelligence, third-party risk management, real-time risk analytics and attack surface monitoring.
Reported operating metrics include a 94% reduction in alert noise, an average lead time of 17 days ahead of active threats, and tracking of more than 340 adversary groups globally. The company lists Fortune 500 firms, financial institutions and government agencies among its customers, with verticals including financial services, government and third-party risk management.
iCOUNTER is led by John Watters, a security pioneer and former President of Mandiant, now part of Google Cloud. The company emerged from stealth to launch its approach to third-party risk management.
