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This course is engineered for professionals who demand control, clarity, and immediate applicability. From the moment you enroll, you gain self-paced access to the complete learning experience, structured to fit seamlessly into your schedule, no matter your time zone, work hours, or prior commitments. Immediate Online Access with No Fixed Deadlines
The course is 100% on-demand, meaning there are no fixed start dates, no live sessions to attend, and no rigid timelines. You progress at your own speed, on your own terms. Most learners complete the core curriculum within 4 to 6 weeks by dedicating just 5 to 7 hours per week, and many report applying critical threat intelligence techniques within the first 7 days. Lifetime Access with Ongoing Updates at No Additional Cost
Your enrollment includes permanent, lifetime access to all course materials. As AI threat landscapes evolve, so does this course. You’ll receive ongoing content updates, new case studies, tool upgrades, and emerging methodology refinements automatically-forever. This is not a one-time resource, but a long-term career investment that grows with you. Accessible Anytime, Anywhere-Fully Optimized for Mobile Devices
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While the course is self-directed, you are never alone. You’ll have clear pathways to expert support through structured Q&A channels, practical feedback mechanisms, and instructor-reviewed exercises. Our team of active threat intelligence professionals provides actionable insights, ensuring your questions are answered with real-world context and precision. Certificate of Completion Issued by The Art of Service
Upon finishing the course, you will earn a verifiable Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service-a globally recognised authority in professional cybersecurity education. This credential is trusted by employers, listed on professional profiles, and enhances visibility on platforms like LinkedIn. It validates your mastery of AI-powered threat intelligence and signals commitment to staying ahead in a high-stakes field. Transparent Pricing with No Hidden Fees
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We stand behind the value and effectiveness of this course with an ironclad satisfaction guarantee. If you engage with the materials and find they don’t meet your expectations, you are eligible for a full refund. Our goal is your success, not just your purchase. This is risk-reversal at its strongest: you try it with complete confidence, knowing your investment is protected. This Works Even If…
You’re new to AI. You’ve only worked in traditional IT security. You’re unsure if you can keep up. This program is designed for all levels, built on step-by-step progression and real-world reinforcement. Past participants include Tier-1 SOC analysts, mid-level GRC specialists, and senior threat hunters-all of whom report measurable skill growth and career momentum within weeks. Real Results from Real Professionals
- A senior cyber analyst at a financial institution used Module 5 to detect a previously missed AI-driven credential stuffing campaign, preventing a potential breach.
- A former IT helpdesk engineer transitioned into a dedicated TI role within three months of completing the course, citing the hands-on threat modeling labs as pivotal.
- A government security advisor leveraged the attack pattern analysis framework to redesign their agency’s intelligence workflow, cutting response time by 40%.
This course works because it’s not theoretical. It’s battle-tested, industry-aligned, and focused on what matters: giving you practical power over modern threats. If you’re ready to act, this course will equip you. Period.
Extensive & Detailed Course Curriculum
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Powered Cyber Threat Intelligence - Understanding the cyber threat landscape in the AI era
- Core concepts of threat intelligence: definition, objectives, and goals
- Differentiating traditional security from AI-enhanced intelligence
- Key stakeholders in cyber threat intelligence operations
- Intelligence lifecycle: planning, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, feedback
- Threat actors: nation-states, cybercriminals, hacktivists, insider threats
- Motivations and tactics behind modern cyber campaigns
- Common attack vectors in AI-driven environments
- Introduction to machine learning and its role in threat detection
- Basics of data classification and tagging for intelligence purposes
- Strategic, operational, and tactical threat intelligence explained
- Building an intelligence mind-set for proactive defense
- The importance of context in threat analysis
- Common pitfalls in early-stage threat intelligence efforts
- Integrating intelligence into existing security policies
Module 2: AI Fundamentals for Cybersecurity Professionals - Machine learning vs. deep learning vs. traditional algorithms
- Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning in security
- How AI models learn from historical attack patterns
- Training data requirements for threat intelligence models
- Feature engineering for cyber threat datasets
- Understanding false positives and false negatives in AI detection
- Model accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score in threat contexts
- Overfitting and underfitting in security AI systems
- Explainable AI for transparent threat decision-making
- Adversarial AI: how attackers fool machine learning models
- Data poisoning and model evasion techniques
- AI robustness and model validation techniques
- Interpreting model outputs for non-data scientists
- Integrating AI predictions with human expert analysis
- Role of automation in accelerating threat response
Module 3: Advanced Threat Intelligence Frameworks - Mitre ATT&CK framework: structure and application
- Navigating ATT&CK matrices for enterprise and cloud
- Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) mapping
- Using ATT&CK for red teaming and defensive gap analysis
- Invisible thread: connecting TTPs across attack chains
- Integrating ATT&CK with AI-driven detection rules
- Uncovering stealthy TTPs using AI behavioral baselines
- CASE framework for structured intelligence reporting
- STIX and TAXII: standards for threat intelligence sharing
- Creating structured intelligence feeds using STIX
- Automated exchange of threat data via TAXII servers
- Open-source frameworks for cross-organizational intelligence
- Intelligence maturity models and progression paths
- Building a custom intelligence framework for your organisation
- Aligning frameworks with industry compliance requirements
Module 4: Data Acquisition and Intelligence Sourcing - Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection methodologies
- Dark web monitoring and data leak detection
- Monitoring hacker forums, paste sites, and breach repositories
- Automating OSINT with AI-assisted scraping and filtering
- Commercial threat intelligence feed integration
- Government and ISAC intelligence sharing programs
- Internal telemetry data: logs, netflow, endpoint telemetry
- Processing large datasets using AI clustering algorithms
- Data enrichment: adding context to raw indicators
- Domain, IP, hash, and URL threat enrichment techniques
- Leveraging passive DNS for threat correlation
- Email header and phishing campaign analysis
- Extracting IOCs from malware reports and sandbox outputs
- Automating IOC ingestion and validation workflows
- Data quality assessment: reliability, timeliness, relevance
Module 5: AI-Driven Threat Detection and Pattern Recognition - Behavioral analytics using user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting anomalous login patterns with unsupervised learning
- Identifying lateral movement through AI clustering
- Discovering malicious PowerShell usage via command line analysis
- Baseline establishment for normal network behavior
- Deviation detection using statistical and ML models
- Time-series analysis for attack progression tracking
- Sentiment analysis in threat actor communications
- NLP for parsing threat reports and chatter
- Automated classification of threat severity levels
- Similarity analysis between known and emerging threats
- AI clustering of malware families and campaigns
- Detecting polymorphic and zero-day malware patterns
- Graph-based AI for mapping attacker infrastructure
- Real-time pattern matching with streaming data
Module 6: Tooling and Platform Integration - Overview of leading threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
- Evaluating TIPs for scalability, automation, and AI features
- Integrating TIPs with SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Automating response playbooks based on AI insights
- Building custom connectors for data ingestion
- Using APIs for real-time threat enrichment
- Configuring alerting and escalation rules with precision
- YARA rule creation enhanced by AI suggestions
- Suricata and Snort rule optimization using machine learning
- Integrating threat feeds into endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Cloud-native threat intelligence in AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel
- Automating IOC blocking at the firewall via API
- Creating intelligence dashboards with Kibana and Grafana
- Version control for intelligence rules and configurations
- Managing tool sprawl and integration complexity
Module 7: Threat Hunting with AI Assistance - Proactive vs. reactive threat detection philosophy
- Developing hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns
- Using AI to generate potential attack hypotheses
- Data exploration techniques for uncovering hidden threats
- Leveraging AI to prioritize hunting targets
- Memory forensics and AI-assisted artifact detection
- Registry and persistence mechanism scanning
- Detecting scheduled tasks and WMI abuse
- Identifying living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBAS)
- Using AI to detect subtle exploitation chains
- Fileless malware hunting strategies
- Reviewing PowerShell, WMI, and .NET execution logs
- Hunting for encrypted C2 channels using traffic entropy
- Automated correlation of multi-source telemetry
- Documenting and reporting hunting findings effectively
Module 8: Malware Analysis Enhanced by AI - Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
Module 1: Foundations of AI-Powered Cyber Threat Intelligence - Understanding the cyber threat landscape in the AI era
- Core concepts of threat intelligence: definition, objectives, and goals
- Differentiating traditional security from AI-enhanced intelligence
- Key stakeholders in cyber threat intelligence operations
- Intelligence lifecycle: planning, collection, processing, analysis, dissemination, feedback
- Threat actors: nation-states, cybercriminals, hacktivists, insider threats
- Motivations and tactics behind modern cyber campaigns
- Common attack vectors in AI-driven environments
- Introduction to machine learning and its role in threat detection
- Basics of data classification and tagging for intelligence purposes
- Strategic, operational, and tactical threat intelligence explained
- Building an intelligence mind-set for proactive defense
- The importance of context in threat analysis
- Common pitfalls in early-stage threat intelligence efforts
- Integrating intelligence into existing security policies
Module 2: AI Fundamentals for Cybersecurity Professionals - Machine learning vs. deep learning vs. traditional algorithms
- Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning in security
- How AI models learn from historical attack patterns
- Training data requirements for threat intelligence models
- Feature engineering for cyber threat datasets
- Understanding false positives and false negatives in AI detection
- Model accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score in threat contexts
- Overfitting and underfitting in security AI systems
- Explainable AI for transparent threat decision-making
- Adversarial AI: how attackers fool machine learning models
- Data poisoning and model evasion techniques
- AI robustness and model validation techniques
- Interpreting model outputs for non-data scientists
- Integrating AI predictions with human expert analysis
- Role of automation in accelerating threat response
Module 3: Advanced Threat Intelligence Frameworks - Mitre ATT&CK framework: structure and application
- Navigating ATT&CK matrices for enterprise and cloud
- Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) mapping
- Using ATT&CK for red teaming and defensive gap analysis
- Invisible thread: connecting TTPs across attack chains
- Integrating ATT&CK with AI-driven detection rules
- Uncovering stealthy TTPs using AI behavioral baselines
- CASE framework for structured intelligence reporting
- STIX and TAXII: standards for threat intelligence sharing
- Creating structured intelligence feeds using STIX
- Automated exchange of threat data via TAXII servers
- Open-source frameworks for cross-organizational intelligence
- Intelligence maturity models and progression paths
- Building a custom intelligence framework for your organisation
- Aligning frameworks with industry compliance requirements
Module 4: Data Acquisition and Intelligence Sourcing - Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection methodologies
- Dark web monitoring and data leak detection
- Monitoring hacker forums, paste sites, and breach repositories
- Automating OSINT with AI-assisted scraping and filtering
- Commercial threat intelligence feed integration
- Government and ISAC intelligence sharing programs
- Internal telemetry data: logs, netflow, endpoint telemetry
- Processing large datasets using AI clustering algorithms
- Data enrichment: adding context to raw indicators
- Domain, IP, hash, and URL threat enrichment techniques
- Leveraging passive DNS for threat correlation
- Email header and phishing campaign analysis
- Extracting IOCs from malware reports and sandbox outputs
- Automating IOC ingestion and validation workflows
- Data quality assessment: reliability, timeliness, relevance
Module 5: AI-Driven Threat Detection and Pattern Recognition - Behavioral analytics using user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting anomalous login patterns with unsupervised learning
- Identifying lateral movement through AI clustering
- Discovering malicious PowerShell usage via command line analysis
- Baseline establishment for normal network behavior
- Deviation detection using statistical and ML models
- Time-series analysis for attack progression tracking
- Sentiment analysis in threat actor communications
- NLP for parsing threat reports and chatter
- Automated classification of threat severity levels
- Similarity analysis between known and emerging threats
- AI clustering of malware families and campaigns
- Detecting polymorphic and zero-day malware patterns
- Graph-based AI for mapping attacker infrastructure
- Real-time pattern matching with streaming data
Module 6: Tooling and Platform Integration - Overview of leading threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
- Evaluating TIPs for scalability, automation, and AI features
- Integrating TIPs with SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Automating response playbooks based on AI insights
- Building custom connectors for data ingestion
- Using APIs for real-time threat enrichment
- Configuring alerting and escalation rules with precision
- YARA rule creation enhanced by AI suggestions
- Suricata and Snort rule optimization using machine learning
- Integrating threat feeds into endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Cloud-native threat intelligence in AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel
- Automating IOC blocking at the firewall via API
- Creating intelligence dashboards with Kibana and Grafana
- Version control for intelligence rules and configurations
- Managing tool sprawl and integration complexity
Module 7: Threat Hunting with AI Assistance - Proactive vs. reactive threat detection philosophy
- Developing hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns
- Using AI to generate potential attack hypotheses
- Data exploration techniques for uncovering hidden threats
- Leveraging AI to prioritize hunting targets
- Memory forensics and AI-assisted artifact detection
- Registry and persistence mechanism scanning
- Detecting scheduled tasks and WMI abuse
- Identifying living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBAS)
- Using AI to detect subtle exploitation chains
- Fileless malware hunting strategies
- Reviewing PowerShell, WMI, and .NET execution logs
- Hunting for encrypted C2 channels using traffic entropy
- Automated correlation of multi-source telemetry
- Documenting and reporting hunting findings effectively
Module 8: Malware Analysis Enhanced by AI - Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Machine learning vs. deep learning vs. traditional algorithms
- Supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning in security
- How AI models learn from historical attack patterns
- Training data requirements for threat intelligence models
- Feature engineering for cyber threat datasets
- Understanding false positives and false negatives in AI detection
- Model accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score in threat contexts
- Overfitting and underfitting in security AI systems
- Explainable AI for transparent threat decision-making
- Adversarial AI: how attackers fool machine learning models
- Data poisoning and model evasion techniques
- AI robustness and model validation techniques
- Interpreting model outputs for non-data scientists
- Integrating AI predictions with human expert analysis
- Role of automation in accelerating threat response
Module 3: Advanced Threat Intelligence Frameworks - Mitre ATT&CK framework: structure and application
- Navigating ATT&CK matrices for enterprise and cloud
- Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) mapping
- Using ATT&CK for red teaming and defensive gap analysis
- Invisible thread: connecting TTPs across attack chains
- Integrating ATT&CK with AI-driven detection rules
- Uncovering stealthy TTPs using AI behavioral baselines
- CASE framework for structured intelligence reporting
- STIX and TAXII: standards for threat intelligence sharing
- Creating structured intelligence feeds using STIX
- Automated exchange of threat data via TAXII servers
- Open-source frameworks for cross-organizational intelligence
- Intelligence maturity models and progression paths
- Building a custom intelligence framework for your organisation
- Aligning frameworks with industry compliance requirements
Module 4: Data Acquisition and Intelligence Sourcing - Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection methodologies
- Dark web monitoring and data leak detection
- Monitoring hacker forums, paste sites, and breach repositories
- Automating OSINT with AI-assisted scraping and filtering
- Commercial threat intelligence feed integration
- Government and ISAC intelligence sharing programs
- Internal telemetry data: logs, netflow, endpoint telemetry
- Processing large datasets using AI clustering algorithms
- Data enrichment: adding context to raw indicators
- Domain, IP, hash, and URL threat enrichment techniques
- Leveraging passive DNS for threat correlation
- Email header and phishing campaign analysis
- Extracting IOCs from malware reports and sandbox outputs
- Automating IOC ingestion and validation workflows
- Data quality assessment: reliability, timeliness, relevance
Module 5: AI-Driven Threat Detection and Pattern Recognition - Behavioral analytics using user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting anomalous login patterns with unsupervised learning
- Identifying lateral movement through AI clustering
- Discovering malicious PowerShell usage via command line analysis
- Baseline establishment for normal network behavior
- Deviation detection using statistical and ML models
- Time-series analysis for attack progression tracking
- Sentiment analysis in threat actor communications
- NLP for parsing threat reports and chatter
- Automated classification of threat severity levels
- Similarity analysis between known and emerging threats
- AI clustering of malware families and campaigns
- Detecting polymorphic and zero-day malware patterns
- Graph-based AI for mapping attacker infrastructure
- Real-time pattern matching with streaming data
Module 6: Tooling and Platform Integration - Overview of leading threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
- Evaluating TIPs for scalability, automation, and AI features
- Integrating TIPs with SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Automating response playbooks based on AI insights
- Building custom connectors for data ingestion
- Using APIs for real-time threat enrichment
- Configuring alerting and escalation rules with precision
- YARA rule creation enhanced by AI suggestions
- Suricata and Snort rule optimization using machine learning
- Integrating threat feeds into endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Cloud-native threat intelligence in AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel
- Automating IOC blocking at the firewall via API
- Creating intelligence dashboards with Kibana and Grafana
- Version control for intelligence rules and configurations
- Managing tool sprawl and integration complexity
Module 7: Threat Hunting with AI Assistance - Proactive vs. reactive threat detection philosophy
- Developing hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns
- Using AI to generate potential attack hypotheses
- Data exploration techniques for uncovering hidden threats
- Leveraging AI to prioritize hunting targets
- Memory forensics and AI-assisted artifact detection
- Registry and persistence mechanism scanning
- Detecting scheduled tasks and WMI abuse
- Identifying living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBAS)
- Using AI to detect subtle exploitation chains
- Fileless malware hunting strategies
- Reviewing PowerShell, WMI, and .NET execution logs
- Hunting for encrypted C2 channels using traffic entropy
- Automated correlation of multi-source telemetry
- Documenting and reporting hunting findings effectively
Module 8: Malware Analysis Enhanced by AI - Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collection methodologies
- Dark web monitoring and data leak detection
- Monitoring hacker forums, paste sites, and breach repositories
- Automating OSINT with AI-assisted scraping and filtering
- Commercial threat intelligence feed integration
- Government and ISAC intelligence sharing programs
- Internal telemetry data: logs, netflow, endpoint telemetry
- Processing large datasets using AI clustering algorithms
- Data enrichment: adding context to raw indicators
- Domain, IP, hash, and URL threat enrichment techniques
- Leveraging passive DNS for threat correlation
- Email header and phishing campaign analysis
- Extracting IOCs from malware reports and sandbox outputs
- Automating IOC ingestion and validation workflows
- Data quality assessment: reliability, timeliness, relevance
Module 5: AI-Driven Threat Detection and Pattern Recognition - Behavioral analytics using user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
- Detecting anomalous login patterns with unsupervised learning
- Identifying lateral movement through AI clustering
- Discovering malicious PowerShell usage via command line analysis
- Baseline establishment for normal network behavior
- Deviation detection using statistical and ML models
- Time-series analysis for attack progression tracking
- Sentiment analysis in threat actor communications
- NLP for parsing threat reports and chatter
- Automated classification of threat severity levels
- Similarity analysis between known and emerging threats
- AI clustering of malware families and campaigns
- Detecting polymorphic and zero-day malware patterns
- Graph-based AI for mapping attacker infrastructure
- Real-time pattern matching with streaming data
Module 6: Tooling and Platform Integration - Overview of leading threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
- Evaluating TIPs for scalability, automation, and AI features
- Integrating TIPs with SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Automating response playbooks based on AI insights
- Building custom connectors for data ingestion
- Using APIs for real-time threat enrichment
- Configuring alerting and escalation rules with precision
- YARA rule creation enhanced by AI suggestions
- Suricata and Snort rule optimization using machine learning
- Integrating threat feeds into endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Cloud-native threat intelligence in AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel
- Automating IOC blocking at the firewall via API
- Creating intelligence dashboards with Kibana and Grafana
- Version control for intelligence rules and configurations
- Managing tool sprawl and integration complexity
Module 7: Threat Hunting with AI Assistance - Proactive vs. reactive threat detection philosophy
- Developing hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns
- Using AI to generate potential attack hypotheses
- Data exploration techniques for uncovering hidden threats
- Leveraging AI to prioritize hunting targets
- Memory forensics and AI-assisted artifact detection
- Registry and persistence mechanism scanning
- Detecting scheduled tasks and WMI abuse
- Identifying living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBAS)
- Using AI to detect subtle exploitation chains
- Fileless malware hunting strategies
- Reviewing PowerShell, WMI, and .NET execution logs
- Hunting for encrypted C2 channels using traffic entropy
- Automated correlation of multi-source telemetry
- Documenting and reporting hunting findings effectively
Module 8: Malware Analysis Enhanced by AI - Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Overview of leading threat intelligence platforms (TIPs)
- Evaluating TIPs for scalability, automation, and AI features
- Integrating TIPs with SIEM and SOAR solutions
- Automating response playbooks based on AI insights
- Building custom connectors for data ingestion
- Using APIs for real-time threat enrichment
- Configuring alerting and escalation rules with precision
- YARA rule creation enhanced by AI suggestions
- Suricata and Snort rule optimization using machine learning
- Integrating threat feeds into endpoint detection and response (EDR)
- Cloud-native threat intelligence in AWS GuardDuty, Azure Sentinel
- Automating IOC blocking at the firewall via API
- Creating intelligence dashboards with Kibana and Grafana
- Version control for intelligence rules and configurations
- Managing tool sprawl and integration complexity
Module 7: Threat Hunting with AI Assistance - Proactive vs. reactive threat detection philosophy
- Developing hypothesis-driven hunting campaigns
- Using AI to generate potential attack hypotheses
- Data exploration techniques for uncovering hidden threats
- Leveraging AI to prioritize hunting targets
- Memory forensics and AI-assisted artifact detection
- Registry and persistence mechanism scanning
- Detecting scheduled tasks and WMI abuse
- Identifying living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBAS)
- Using AI to detect subtle exploitation chains
- Fileless malware hunting strategies
- Reviewing PowerShell, WMI, and .NET execution logs
- Hunting for encrypted C2 channels using traffic entropy
- Automated correlation of multi-source telemetry
- Documenting and reporting hunting findings effectively
Module 8: Malware Analysis Enhanced by AI - Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Static vs. dynamic malware analysis overview
- Extracting metadata and strings from binary files
- Using AI to predict malware family based on characteristics
- Automated sandbox analysis with AI interpretation
- Behavioral report parsing using natural language processing
- Identifying malware packers and obfuscation techniques
- API call sequence analysis using machine learning
- Network traffic pattern classification for malware
- Generating YARA rules from AI-analyzed samples
- Detecting polymorphic code changes across variants
- Creating malware clustering maps for attribution
- Automating sample triage with AI scoring
- Reverse engineering assistance using AI decompilation
- Threat intelligence report generation from analysis
- Building internal malware repositories with metadata
Module 9: Attribution and Threat Actor Profiling - Challenges in cyber attribution and realistic expectations
- Technical, infrastructure, and behavioral indicators for linking attacks
- Identifying reuse of infrastructure, code, or TTPs
- Tracking command-and-control (C2) server histories
- Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) and their detection
- Tying malware samples to known threat groups
- Language clues and timezone analysis in attack patterns
- Victimology: identifying targets and motivations
- Profiling ransomware gangs and their evolution
- Mapping APT groups to MITRE’s threat actor profiles
- Using AI to link disparate campaigns over time
- Geolocation and hosting provider analysis
- Assessing confidence levels in attribution claims
- Sharing attribution findings with law enforcement channels
- Legal and ethical boundaries in public attribution
Module 10: Intelligence Production and Reporting - Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Structuring actionable intelligence reports
- Executive summaries for leadership audiences
- Technical details for SOC and incident response teams
- Visualisation techniques for threat data clarity
- Creating timelines and attack narratives
- AI-assisted summarisation of long-form reports
- Automated report generation from raw data
- Confidence scoring in intelligence assessments
- Handling uncertain or incomplete data
- Updating reports with new evidence and feedback
- Distributing intelligence through secure channels
- Role-based access control for report dissemination
- Integrating intelligence into board-level risk discussions
- Metrics for measuring report impact and utility
- Feedback loops for continuous improvement
Module 11: Automation and Orchestration in Threat Response - Introduction to SOAR: security orchestration, automation, and response
- Mapping incident workflows for automation potential
- Automated enrichment of alerts with threat intelligence
- AI-driven triage and alert prioritisation
- Dynamic risk scoring based on threat context
- Automated containment actions: user disable, IP block, URL takedown
- Playbook design for ransomware, phishing, and data exfiltration
- Testing and validating automated workflows
- Human-in-the-loop considerations for critical actions
- Logging and auditing automated decisions
- Integrating threat intelligence into response timelines
- Reducing mean time to respond (MTTR) with AI
- Orchestrating cross-platform responses: email, endpoint, firewall
- Change management for automated policy updates
- Measuring ROI of automation in incident handling
Module 12: Red Teaming and AI-Driven Adversary Simulation - Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Purpose and ethics of red team operations
- Planning adversarial simulations with intelligence inputs
- Using AI to emulate real-world attacker behaviors
- Bypassing AI-based detection systems ethically
- Testing model robustness against evasion techniques
- Simulating phishing, lateral movement, and privilege escalation
- Automating attack path generation based on network maps
- Evaluating blue team detection capabilities
- Generating after-action reports with improvement insights
- Incorporating threat intelligence into exercise design
- Using ATT&CK-based scenario development
- Validating detection rules with real attack techniques
- Measuring detection coverage and blind spots
- Improving defenses through red team feedback
- Documenting findings for security awareness training
Module 13: Threat Intelligence in Cloud and Hybrid Environments - Cloud-specific threats and attack surfaces
- Identity and access management risks in cloud platforms
- AI-powered monitoring of cloud access logs
- Detecting misconfigurations using automated scanning
- Cloud-native logging and monitoring tools (CloudTrail, Azure Monitor)
- Integrating threat intelligence into AWS Security Hub
- Detecting suspicious API calls in cloud environments
- Monitoring for compromised service accounts
- AI analysis of cloud storage access patterns
- Securing containerised workloads with threat intelligence
- Monitoring Kubernetes and serverless environments
- Hybrid environment visibility challenges
- Correlating on-premises and cloud alerts
- Automated responses across environments
- Policy enforcement based on threat context
Module 14: Incident Response and AI-Driven Forensics - Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Phases of incident response: prepare, identify, contain, eradicate, recover, lessons learned
- Using AI to accelerate incident identification
- Automated chain-of-custody documentation
- Timeline reconstruction using AI-assisted log correlation
- Identifying initial access vectors through telemetry
- Memory dump analysis with AI pattern recognition
- File system timeline creation and analysis
- Network forensics: PCAP analysis and C2 detection
- Tracking attacker movement across systems
- Using intelligence to estimate scope and impact
- Automated creation of incident playbooks
- Engaging stakeholders with clear, AI-augmented briefings
- Post-incident report writing and executive communication
- Extracting new IOCs and TTPs for future prevention
- Updating detection rules and policies after incidents
Module 15: Strategic Intelligence and Business Risk Management - Aligning threat intelligence with business objectives
- Board-level communication of cyber risks
- Translating technical threats into financial impact
- Scenario planning for high-impact threats
- AI forecasting of threat trends and probabilities
- Evaluating supply chain and third-party risks
- Monitoring for threats to mergers and acquisitions
- Geopolitical risk analysis using open-source intelligence
- Assessing risks to physical operations and critical infrastructure
- Integrating intelligence into enterprise risk management (ERM)
- Using threat scoring for investment prioritisation
- Insurance and cyber risk quantification models
- Regulatory compliance and threat intelligence
- Reporting to audit and risk committees
- Building organisational resilience through intelligence
Module 16: Implementing a Threat Intelligence Program - Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Defining program goals and success metrics
- Securing executive buy-in and budget approval
- Team structure: analyst, manager, automation engineer roles
- Technology stack selection and integration roadmap
- Data governance and retention policies
- Establishing intake processes for internal and external data
- Developing SLAs for intelligence delivery
- Integration with existing security operations
- Creating feedback mechanisms with SOC and IR teams
- Knowledge management and documentation standards
- Performance measurement: usage, accuracy, impact
- Continuous improvement through retrospectives
- Staff training and development pathways
- Scaling from ad-hoc to formalised operations
- Aligning with industry collaboration groups
Module 17: Future Trends and Evolving AI Threats - AI-generated phishing and social engineering attacks
- Deepfake-based identity impersonation threats
- Automated vulnerability discovery using AI
- AI-powered malware development by attackers
- Generative adversarial networks (GANs) in cyber attacks
- Defensive countermeasures against AI-enhanced threats
- AI arms race: attackers vs defenders
- Regulatory and policy responses to AI in cybersecurity
- Ethical considerations in AI-based surveillance
- Open-source AI tools for both offense and defense
- Quantum computing implications for cryptography
- IoT and AI convergence: expanding attack surfaces
- Autonomous attack agents and swarm attacks
- Preparing for next-generation threat landscapes
- Staying ahead through continuous learning and adaptation
Module 18: Capstone Project and Certification Preparation - Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources
- Overview of the final capstone intelligence project
- Choosing a relevant threat scenario or dataset
- Conducting end-to-end AI-powered threat analysis
- Applying framework mapping (ATT&CK, STIX)
- Generating IOCs and defensive recommendations
- Writing a professional-grade intelligence report
- Presenting findings with visualisations and executive summary
- Peer and instructor feedback integration
- Final submission and evaluation process
- Certification requirements and completion criteria
- Preparing your Certificate of Completion portfolio
- Adding the credential to LinkedIn and resumes
- Career advancement strategies post-certification
- Ongoing learning pathways and community access
- Alumni network and job opportunity resources