Discover how ThreatCluster helps security teams replace information overload with focused cyber threat intelligence that matters.
When a major cyber incident breaks, the race is not simply to gather information. It is to understand what matters before valuable time disappears. Security analysts often find themselves opening dozens of browser tabs, comparing reports from different sources, and piecing together fragments of the same story. Hours can pass before they can answer the question every organisation asks during a crisis: are we affected?
That challenge inspired ThreatCluster. Founded in 2025 by James Mockford and Reyben Cortes, the UK based cyber threat intelligence platform was created to solve a problem that many security professionals had come to accept as unavoidable. The volume of reporting had grown, but the quality of decision making had not. Analysts were spending more time collecting information than analysing it. ThreatCluster set out to change that.
Turning Hundreds Of Reports Into One Clear Story
Every day, ThreatCluster ingests approximately 900 articles from more than 16,000 open and dark web sources. Rather than presenting users with an overwhelming stream of duplicate reports, the platform applies density based semantic clustering to identify when multiple articles describe the same incident. Those reports are condensed into roughly 70 coherent clusters, each providing a sourced timeline, extracted entities, indicators of compromise ready for export, and mapped attack techniques aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The result is simple but powerful. Instead of reading forty versions of the same event, analysts receive a single, structured narrative containing the information they need to make informed decisions.
The platform goes further by tailoring intelligence to each organisation. ThreatCluster builds custom feeds based on a company’s technology stack, vendors, sector, geography and supply chain. Rather than filtering through every global cyber incident, teams see the handful of threats that are genuinely relevant to their environment. When a matching threat appears, they receive an alert immediately.
For security teams, that can transform an entire working day. What once required hours of reading becomes focused triage that can often be completed in around an hour.
Built By Practitioners Who Understand The Work
ThreatCluster was not created in a boardroom. It was built by professionals with extensive operational experience across cyber security and threat intelligence.
Founder James Mockford began his career as an IT apprentice at the age of seventeen before progressing through managed security, operational technology and industrial control system security, security engineering and threat intelligence. He also serves in the Royal Naval Reserve Maritime Cyber Unit in a personal capacity.
Co founder Reyben Cortes previously worked in United States federal threat intelligence, where he focused on ransomware operations and nation state cyber activity.
Together, their experience shaped a platform designed around the daily realities facing analysts rather than assumptions about how intelligence should be consumed.
Making Enterprise Grade Intelligence Accessible
One of ThreatCluster’s defining principles is accessibility.
For years, advanced cyber threat intelligence platforms have largely been available only through expensive enterprise contracts that placed them beyond the reach of many organisations. Smaller security teams often had to rely on fragmented public sources or basic monitoring tools despite facing many of the same threats as larger enterprises.
ThreatCluster takes a different approach. The platform offers a free entry point alongside paid plans priced for working security teams rather than only the largest organisations.
As James Mockford explains:
“Serious threat intelligence has been locked behind enterprise pricing for years. If you aren’t a large organisation with a big budget, the good tooling has been out of reach. We didn’t see a reason for that, so we built something priced for the teams who actually need it.”
That philosophy has already attracted users ranging from individual analysts to Big Four firms, Fortune 500 companies and defence agencies.
Solving The Information Overload Problem
Threat intelligence has become one of the most valuable assets in cyber security, but its usefulness depends on speed and clarity. Duplicate reporting, scattered sources and disconnected timelines often delay the decisions organisations need to make most urgently.
ThreatCluster addresses that challenge by collecting information across the open and dark web, performing its own in house dark web collection rather than relying on third party feeds, and presenting analysts with one consolidated view of each incident.
James Mockford summarises the problem this way:
“Threat intelligence is hopelessly fragmented. One incident gets reported across dozens of sources, each holding a different piece of it, and the analyst has to find and read all of them before they understand what happened. We pull it into one place. Everything you need to make an informed call is laid out in front of you within seconds.”
By reducing noise instead of adding to it, ThreatCluster enables analysts to focus on investigation, response and decision making instead of repetitive research.
Why ThreatCluster Matters
As cyber threats continue to evolve, organisations need more than larger volumes of data. They need intelligence that is organised, relevant and immediately actionable.
ThreatCluster represents a shift away from information overload and towards practical analysis. By combining semantic clustering, tailored intelligence, comprehensive open and dark web coverage and accessible pricing, it offers security teams a way to spend less time searching for answers and more time acting on them.
Readers interested in exploring the platform can create a free account at www.threatcluster.io and learn more about the company’s approach at www.threatcluster.io/about. For media enquiries or additional information, contact James Mockford at hello@threatcluster.io. Follow ThreatCluster on X, connect with the company on LinkedIn, or learn more about the founders through the LinkedIn profiles of James Mockford and Reyben Cortes.
