Learning Threat Intelligence

Course details

Threat intelligence is a foundation of cybersecurity—because knowing what you’re defending against helps you focus on the most important things. In this course, Karla Reffold shows how you can easily start and scale a program of cyber threat intelligence so you can avoid wasting resources and instead spend your money on things that actually improve security.

Join Karla as she shows how businesses can benefit from integrating threat intelligence into their security strategy. Learn how to turn data into actionable intelligence and how to distribute this throughout the business. By understanding who needs what, and how it can be used, you can begin to embed threat intelligence in all areas of your business. Plus, learn how to ask better questions of threat intelligence providers as you gain a greater understanding of the process.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Defending your network

1. The Not-So-Basics of Threat Intelligence

02 - What threat intelligence really is
03 - Learning the key terms
04 - Cyber threat intelligence frameworks
05 - Threat actors and their motivations

2. How Different Departments Use Intelligence

06 - How the SOC uses intelligence
07 - How incident response uses intelligence
08 - How the leadership team uses intelligence
09 - How the risk team uses intelligence

3. The Intelligence Process

10 - Planning for threat intelligence implementation
11 - Collecting threat intelligence - Part 1
12 - Collecting threat intelligence - Part 2
13 - Processing threat intelligence
14 - Analyzing threat intelligence
15 - Dissemination and feedback

4. Implementing Threat Intelligence

16 - How to start a threat intelligence program
17 - How to scale a threat intelligence program
18 - Metrics to consider

Conclusion

19 - Stay up to date on CTI

Learning Threat Intelligence

Authors

Karla Reffold