Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence
Course Content
Cyber threats keep getting more complex and sophisticated and security teams cannot continue playing whack-a-mole. Basic methods and tools are no longer efficient against these emerging threats. This is why moving towards more data driven security is a necessity and of course all of this requires specific skills that you will be learning through this course. This course, Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence, is built with the intelligence cycle in mind to create a consistent image and a logical sequence of how to build and leverage a Threat Intelligence program.
So, you will be interested to enroll in the course if you already have some basic knowledge about cyber threat intelligence and you are looking for a course to enhance your existing skills, or perhaps you are building a new Cyber Threat Intelligence program for your organization. The advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence course will benefit security practitioners and individuals interested in preventing cyber threats. In this course, we will discuss how Threat Intelligence can help you leverage your existing data sources to extract useful information and how to find complementary information and intelligence from external sources. We will also explain how to get actionable data through the process of vetting and the importance of this task to reduce efforts on false positives investigations.
The next part will be dealing with analysis of intrusion and campaigns. It can help you structure your analysis using models and techniques like the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK. A full part will be dedicated to campaign investigation and its sophisticated analysis methods such as Visual analysis and Heatmap analysis. Another interesting part of the analysis is attribution. Working on complex investigations can often lead to create confusion or even push analysts to use shortcuts to come up with conclusions especially related to attribution. At some point, it becomes a handicap to think properly but if the analysts are unable to identify these issues, they won’t be able to defeat them. For this reason, one of the modules will discuss biases and logical errors identification and giving advice on how to manage them.
And finally, one of the key concepts of Cyber Threat Intelligence is dissemination. Therefore, it is essential to choose the right format of intelligence to share based on your targeted audience (tactical, operational, strategic).
Prerequisites
Course Goals
By the end of this course, students should be able to:Instructed by
I am a Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst with 3+ years of professional experience in cybersecurity field and have been a cyber security college instructor for more than two years. My first steps in the cybersecurity field were during my college years, within the organization “SecuriNets," where I had the chance to become the president from 2014 to 2015 and participated on the organization of the national security day “Securiday."
For my non-work-related activities, I’m a cat-mom, so taking care of my cats represents an important part of my day-to-day life. On my free time, I enjoy writing articles on my magazine (digitalys-mag.net), I do media coverage of geek events and cyber security events.
I joined Cybrary as a regular member more than 2 years ago and I’ve been watching the growth of the platform and enrolled to few courses. I found out about the TA and Instructor programs though one of the email notifications, so I first applied as a TA and joined the community. Quickly after that I saw that there was a Cybrary course waiting for an instructor, so I wondered if it was the right time to give back to the community and start sharing. I applied for the instructor position and started my first course right away!
