//: About us

We don’t just monitor threats. We counter them.

iCOUNTER was built to maintain pace with the modern adversary — with AI-enhanced human intelligence and the industry’s first Counter Threat Operations System (CTOS).

a new kind of defense for a new threat landscape.

the next evolution in cyber and fraud defense.

Gain your proactive edge
//: OUR MISSION

Shift the balance of power back to defenders. To stop damage before it spreads. To answer the question: "What are they planning to do to me, and when?"

//: OUR APPROACH

We leverage AI enabled HUMINT to create, collect, and correllate emerging threats against our customer’s profile. Our uniqueness lies in our AI-driven ability to collect and triage crucial information prior to the launch of an attack against a targeted organization, providing a true "glimpse into the future."

AI-enabled cyber­criminals are evolving faster than defenders.

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While most threat intel providers report on emerging and active generalized threats from around the world, our customers’ unique profiles drives our entire collection process, and results in targeted intelligence against targeted attacks.

Our story began over two decades ago.

In 2002, our founder acquired iDEFENSE, and built the world’s first commercial cyber threat intelligence firm. That spark ignited a market. In 2007, he launched iSIGHT Partners, shifting the industry from vulnerability intelligence to adversarial intelligence born out of a global collection capability. This legacy continued through Mandiant and Google — and now, iCOUNTER.

We were built to give defenders the advantage they’ve always wanted: real operational insight during the development phases of an attack. Clarity. Control. Counter.

Imagine being inside your adversary’s planning session— the week before launching the attack. That’s the symmetry we bring to cyber, fraud, and risk teams.

iCOUNTER has arrived.

Counter threats before they strike.

//: About us

We are a collective of operators, analysts, and innovators — veterans of the world’s most advanced intelligence operations. Together, we bring decades of experience detecting, diverting, and defeating cyber threats.

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Dave Tyson
Partner, Intelligence

Dave Tyson is the Chief Intelligence Officer for iCOUNTER.

He has over 35 years of experience in cyber & physical security leadership battling organized crime and nation state attackers has prepared him for all aspects of enterprise security. He is a frequent advisor to boards and executive teams on security strategy and board cybersecurity governance.

His previous roles include CISO appointments at SC Johnson, Nike, & PG&E, he led Global Security operations for eBay and was CSO for the Host City of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the City of Vancouver. Dave has pioneered Intelligence led security strategy as a means to maximize risk reduction from targeted cyber attacks and optimize security spend to deliver the greatest risk reduction per dollar.

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Kathleen Thomas
Partner, Finance

Kathleen Thomas has 20 years of experience developing and managing highly functional and progressive financial organizations in the cybersecurity and semi-conductor industries.

In her role as Apollo & iCOUNTER Partner/CFO, she provides financial and accounting leadership, contributes to the strategic direction of the company, and ensures company-wide financial and operational execution. Prior to joining iCOUNTER, she held leadership roles at high growth companies including Censys, Cysiv (acquired by Forescout), Zimperium (acquired by Liberty Strategic Capital) and DeviceFidelity (acquired by Square Technologies).

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Scott Schneider
Partner, Sales

As a Partner at iCOUNTER, Schneider leads go-to-market initiatives, singularly focused on empowering customers and their extended ecosystems to proactively avoid loss through precision cyber risk intelligence.

He brings a distinguished career to this mission, including leadership roles at groundbreaking intelligence firms iDEFENSE and iSIGHT Partners, and as a founding team member at CyberGRX. Throughout his tenure, Schneider has consistently enabled global enterprises to manage complex cyber risk with unparalleled efficiency, leveraging cutting-edge intelligence to protect their entire operational footprint.

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John Watters
CEO

John Watters is a pioneer in the cyber threat intelligence industry with more than two decades of experience building cybersecurity and threat intelligence businesses. He most recently served as President and COO of Mandiant, leading the company through FireEye's divestiture and subsequent acquisition by Google in 2022. Prior to that role, he founded iSIGHT Partners and served as its Chairman and CEO until the company was acquired by FireEye and merged with Mandiant. Earlier in his career, he acquired and led iDEFENSE as Chairman and CEO, where his team pioneered the zero-day vulnerability discovery industry—work that was chronicled in Nicole Perlroth's acclaimed book "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race." iDEFENSE was successfully sold to Verisign in 2005.

Watters serves as a Venture Partner with SYN Ventures and American Frontier Funds and serves on the boards of Oleria, Batuta, Mitiga, and Apollo. With the launch of iCOUNTER, Watters returns to his entrepreneurial roots, once again breaking new ground by helping companies counter targeted threats and AI-enabled adversaries. His unique combination of operational expertise, strategic vision, and deep understanding of the evolving threat landscape positions him at the forefront of next-generation cyber risk intelligence solutions.

Our evolution in Threat Intelligence

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//: Year 2002-2006

iDEFENSE

Vulnerability discovery & threat awareness.

//: Year 2007-2016

iSIGHT PARTNERS

Adversary centric, global actionable intelligence.

//: Year 2016-today

391+ VENDORS. INNOVATION STAGNATION

Today’s threat Intelligence reports on every actor group, TTP, and IOC that COULD possibly present a risk to you. You have to find the needle in the haystack. Intelligence that doesn’t help you shrink your big data problem is part of your big data problem.

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