Course Overview

The news is full of tragic stories of organizations that failed to properly collect and act on cyber threat intelligence. Your organization wants to ensure the integrity and availability of its services and protect brand reputation in the face of ever-more-present cyber threat actors. It is essential that you educate yourself on the fundamentals of gathering and acting on cyber threat intelligence to optimize risk mitigation. 

This course will give you foundational skills required in understanding, gathering, and applying cyber threat intelligence, which will allow you to better protect what is important to you. This course is intended to explain cyber threat intelligence fundamentals in a concise and pertinent fashion, with practical demonstrations of relevant tools whenever possible.

By the end of this course, you will be empowered to create and participate in cyber threat intelligence collection and analysis. You will gain an understanding of cyber threats, threat modelling, the threat intelligence lifestyle, frameworks like ATT&CK and STRIDE, the utility of log aggregation tools and vulnerability scanners, and how to apply frameworks like CVSS to actionably evaluate cyber risk.

What You Will Learn

  • Develop in-demand proficiencies with core cyber-security skills relating to threat intelligence analysis.
  • Build brand reputation by acquiring an elevated security posture relative to your competition.
  • Protect from malicious threat actors that may disrupt business continuity through ransomware and other attacks.
  • Create and participate in cyber threat intelligence collection and analysis
  • Gain an understanding of Cyber Threats.

Program Curriculum

  • What Is Cyber Threat Intelligence?
  • What Is Risk?
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Why Competent Intelligence Matters?
  • Common Points of Failure
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • What is Threat Modeling?
  • Threat Intelligence Lifecycle Overview
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • The MITRE ATT&CK Model (Part One)
  • The MITRE ATT&CK Model (Part Two)
  • The STRIDE Model
  • The Cyber Kill Chain
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Honeypots
  • Vulnerability Scanners
  • Dark Web & Clearnet traffic Monitoring
  • OSINT
  • Log Aggregation Tools
  • Chapter 5 Lab
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Machine Learning & Cyber Threat Intelligence
  • Cloud Threat Intelligence
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Threat Actors (Part - 1)
  • Threat Actors (Part - 2)
  • Information Warfare
  • Chapter 7 Quiz

  • The CVSS model
  • The CARVER Matrix
  • Understanding Vulnerability Scores In Perspective to Risk
  • Putting It All Together
  • Chapter 8 Quiz
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Instructor

Elaine Gorman

Elaine Gorman is an active red team operator, offensive security certified professional, and alumnus of Christopher Newport University with a degree in Computer Science. She works with the tools and principles used in this course daily as a matter of professional necessity. She presents and teaches at local security groups and is uniquely positioned to offer guidance on threat intelligence analysis due to her career as a white-hat hacker. In her free time, she enjoys reading and playing guitar.

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