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title: "Meet a Board Member: Suneel Sundar on Leveraging FAIR and Threat Intel"
description: The FAIR Institute is always looking for ways to build out a comprehensive cyber risk management program with FAIR plus other standards and frameworks.
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# [Meet a Board Member: Suneel Sundar on Leveraging FAIR and Threat Intel](https://www.fairinstitute.org/blog/meet-a-board-member-suneel-sundar-fair-threat-intel)

 Written by [Jeff B. Copeland](https://www.fairinstitute.org/blog/author/jeff-b-copeland) | Dec 5, 2025 1:16:35 PM

At the FAIR Institute, we are always looking for ways to further build out a comprehensive risk management program that leverages FAIR plus other standards and frameworks. 

So, we’re thrilled to welcome to our board [Suneel Sundar](https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneel-sundar/), Director of R&D, Center for Threat-Informed Defense, who opens new avenues of cooperation between the risk and threat-intel communities.

Video: [Watch a conversation between Suneel and Luke Bader, FAIR Institute Director of Memberships and Programs.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxc6hr8lTU8)

The Center for Threat-Informed Defense is a non-profit, privately funded research and development organization operated by MITRE Engenuity, home of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the knowledge base of attacker tactics and techniques widely used on the operational side of cybersecurity.

As Sunil explains in this short video, “understanding threats really requires a holistic story of risk which we [FAIR + MITRE] do together in a symbiotic relationship.” 

“What FAIR has done in creating a common language of cyber risk quantification on the risk side I see as a healthy partnership because MITRE has done that on the threat side as a common language with MITRE ATT&CK.”

Sunil is new to the FAIR Institute board but his symbiotic relationship with FAIR goes back to his days as a young mathematician asked to do a risk analysis for a large utility company. 

“Even back then, the FAIR Institute provided resources that I could use to create customized risk quantification for the energy sector. That was the first patent I ever received and I give credit to FAIR for getting me there.” 

[Watch our Meet a Member Videos](https://www.fairinstitute.org/blog/topic/meet-a-member)

[Join the FAIR Community!](https://www.fairinstitute.org/get-involved-apply-today) 

At the FAIR Institute, cyber and operational risk officers, cybersecurity leaders and business executives share their experience and knowledge on the growing discipline of quantitative risk management.

 

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