arXiv AI By Yutong Cheng, Changze Li, Qian Cui, Wei Ding, Lingzhi Wang, Yan Chen, Peng Gao

CTIFoundry: An Agent-Native Corpus Scaffold for Cyber Threat Intelligence

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CTIFoundry is an agent‑native corpus scaffold designed to improve cyber threat intelligence (CTI) investigations by LLM agents. It transforms traditional CTI data—such as CVE, CWE, CAPEC, and ATT&CK—into a deterministic ontology graph with typed, traversable edges, a span‑grounded report layer that resolves entity aliases and provenance, and hybrid dense‑plus‑lexical retrieval surfaces. When integrated with a standard open‑source agent harness, CTIFoundry boosts overall F1 scores by 0.19 to 0.28 on the CTIConnect benchmark, achieving higher accuracy with fewer tool calls compared to agents using flat, retrieval‑augmented corpora.

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