Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Analyst's Course on Building a Threat Intelligence Program When budget cuts stall progress

Turn fragmented alerts and missing intel into a repeatable, board-ready threat program that proves value even in a lean environment.

Stop spending every Friday night stitching intel spreadsheets while the audit deadline looms and leadership doubts your impact.

$199 one-time

Tailored to your situation. Access within 24 hours. 30-day money-back.

Includes a hand-built implementation playbook delivered alongside course access, generated for your specific situation.

Why this course

You spend days each week stitching together raw logs, open-source reports, and vendor feeds into ad-hoc spreadsheets, only to present a patchwork view that senior leadership dismisses as "nice to have". The tools you use, ticketing queues, separate SIEM dashboards, and manual email threads, never talk to each other, so evidence is scattered across shared drives, personal folders, and expired tickets. When the quarterly risk review arrives, you scramble to produce a single source of truth, and the audit committee flags the missing documentation as a compliance gap, putting your team's budget and your career at risk.

Meanwhile, your peers in larger organisations have dedicated threat intel platforms, standardized intake forms, and clear metrics that drive funding conversations. You hear their success stories and feel the pressure to match them, but every request for additional tooling is met with a "we need to cut costs" response. The result is a cycle of overtime, duplicated effort, and a growing perception that you cannot deliver actionable intelligence on time.

What you walk away with

Produce a single, auditable threat intel register that updates automatically each week.
Deliver a concise executive briefing that ties intel to business risk within 30 minutes.
Implement a reusable intake form that reduces data collection time by 50 percent.
Score and prioritize threats using a calibrated matrix accepted by finance and risk teams.
Establish a repeatable review cadence that satisfies auditors without extra effort.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping Existing Intel Sources

Identify and consolidate every feed, report, and ticket into a unified inventory.

Module 2. Designing the Intake Process

Create a standard form that captures all required fields upfront to eliminate rework.

Module 3. Building the Threat Register

Structure a living register that links intel to assets, owners, and mitigation status.

Module 4. Scoring and Prioritization Framework

Apply a repeatable matrix to rank threats by likelihood and impact.

Module 5. Automating Data Enrichment

Set up lightweight scripts that pull context from open-source and vendor APIs.

Module 6. Evidence Collection for Audits

Assemble the exact artifacts auditors request without manual hunting.

Module 7. Executive Reporting Templates

Craft a one-page briefing that translates technical intel into business risk.

Module 8. Integrating with Existing Ticketing

Bridge the register to your ticketing tool so actions are tracked automatically.

Module 9. Running the Quarterly Review

Facilitate a cadence that updates leadership and satisfies compliance checkpoints.

Module 10. Metrics and Continuous Improvement

Define KPIs that demonstrate program value and guide incremental upgrades.

Module 11. Stakeholder Alignment Workshops

Run short sessions that align security, finance, and risk on threat priorities.

Module 12. Sustaining the Program with Limited Budget

Leverage free tools and internal champions to keep the program alive without new spend.

How this addresses your situation

Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.

Module 1 covers Mapping Existing Intel Sources , exactly the chaos you face when alerts sit in three separate dashboards and no one knows which feed is authoritative.

Module 4 covers Scoring and Prioritization Framework , exactly the indecision you encounter when the CFO asks which threat to fund and you can only point to a list of raw alerts.

Module 6 covers Evidence Collection for Audits , exactly the scramble you endure when the audit committee requests a single source of truth on short notice.

What you get with this course

A populated threat intel register template with 30 example entries.
A standardized intake form for new intel submissions.
A scoring matrix worksheet pre-filled with industry weightings.
An executive briefing slide deck skeleton.
A checklist for audit-ready evidence collection.
A script library for automated enrichment of feeds.
A stakeholder alignment workshop agenda.
A KPI scorecard for ongoing program health.

What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, threat register template pre-populated for your environment, intake form ready for the next request.

Week 1: first version of your executive briefing deck live and shared with the CISO, evidence checklist completed for the upcoming audit.

Month 1: recurring weekly intel update cadence running, KPI scorecard published, and leadership trusts the single source of truth for threat risk.

Before and after

Before

Your intel lives in separate CSV files, email threads, and a shared drive folder that no one can locate quickly. Evidence is scattered, the quarterly risk pack is assembled from stale screenshots, and leadership repeatedly asks for a single source of truth, forcing you to spend hours recreating work under audit pressure.

After

You maintain a single, live threat register that auto-updates from your feeds, produce a ready-to-present executive brief each month, and have a complete audit pack that satisfies compliance reviewers. The team follows a clear weekly cadence, and you can confidently discuss budget needs with the CISO based on concrete metrics.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this, the next quarterly audit will flag missing evidence, forcing senior leadership to question the security budget. Your team will continue to lose weeks to manual data stitching, and your performance review may reflect an inability to deliver measurable risk reduction.

Who it is for

A mid-level cybersecurity analyst who owns the day-to-day threat intel workflow, runs daily triage, curates feeds, and prepares the quarterly risk brief for the CISO. You work in a fast-growing firm with limited budget, juggling multiple ticketing systems and manual reporting while trying to prove the business impact of your work.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a 101 introduction to cyber security fundamentals.

How it arrives

Within 24 hours of purchase your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it. The playbook is hand-built around your specific situation, not LLM-generated boilerplate.

Time investment. 6 hours of focused work spread over a week and the course saves an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2-5K for the same scope, a generic compliance course runs $800-2K, and building the program yourself costs 60+ hours of trial-and-error. At $199 you get a proven method, ready-made artefacts, and a custom playbook that accelerates delivery and ROI.

FAQ

Do I need a dedicated threat intel platform to follow this course?

No, the curriculum works with the tools you already have and only adds lightweight scripts and templates.

How much time will I need each week to implement the steps?

About 3-4 hours per week for four weeks, plus a brief kickoff meeting.

Will this help me pass the upcoming audit?

Yes, the evidence collection module delivers the exact artifacts auditors request.

Is the course suitable if my team already has a senior analyst?

It’s designed for analysts at any level who need a repeatable process, not for senior strategists who already own a full program.

30-day money-back guarantee. If after a week of working through the materials this is not what you needed, reply to the receipt email and a full refund is processed. No questions, no forms.

Within 24 hours your account in the learning environment is provisioned and the tailored implementation playbook is delivered alongside it.