Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The VP's Course on Building a Threat Intelligence Playbook When Incident Response Stalls

Turn fragmented alerts and endless fire-drills into a repeatable intelligence-driven response that protects your team and your career.

Stop spending every Thursday night stitching threat intel into incident reports while senior leadership watches the breach timeline grow.

$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

Your SOC is flooded with raw alerts, but each incident still requires a manual chase through spreadsheets, ticket queues, and ad-hoc email threads. The lack of a unified threat intel feed means analysts spend hours stitching together context that should be pre-packaged, and senior leadership sees repeated “we’re working on it” responses.

When a high-severity breach surfaces, the post-mortem reveals missing logs, duplicated evidence, and a patchwork of spreadsheets that never survived audit. The cost of overtime, the risk of regulatory penalties, and the personal reputation stakes keep rising as the same gaps reappear month after month.

What you walk away with

Create a unified threat intelligence repository that feeds directly into incident workflows.
Produce a complete incident response playbook with defined roles, timelines, and evidence checkpoints.
Generate audit-ready evidence packs for any breach within 24 hours of detection.
Reduce manual investigation time by at least 40 percent through automated enrichment steps.
Communicate clear, data-driven updates to executive leadership during an active incident.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Mapping the Threat Landscape

Identify and prioritize the threat sources most relevant to your financial environment.

Module 2. Building the Intelligence Repository

Set up a centralized feed and tagging system for raw intel.

Module 3. Enrichment Automation

Integrate automated context enrichment to cut manual research time.

Module 4. Incident Triage Framework

Define a rapid triage process that routes alerts to the right analysts.

Module 5. Playbook Design Principles

Structure response steps, decision points, and communication flows.

Module 6. Evidence Collection Checklist

Standardize what logs, screenshots, and artefacts must be captured per incident type.

Module 7. Roles, RACI, and Escalation Paths

Assign clear responsibilities and escalation triggers across teams.

Module 8. Metrics and Success Scorecards

Establish KPIs to measure response speed, containment effectiveness, and learning.

Module 9. Board and Regulator Reporting

Create concise, audit-ready briefing templates for senior leadership.

Module 10. Post-Incident Review Process

Run structured debriefs that turn incidents into actionable improvements.

Module 11. Continuous Improvement Loop

Embed feedback mechanisms to keep the playbook current with emerging threats.

Module 12. Operationalizing the Playbook

Deploy the playbook in your SOC tooling and run live drills to embed habits.

How this addresses your situation

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

Module 2 covers Building the Intelligence Repository , exactly the fragmented feed you struggle with when alerts arrive from dozens of sources without a single source of truth.

Module 5 covers Playbook Design Principles , precisely the missing structure you need when your incident response team debates who does what during a breach.

Module 9 covers Board and Regulator Reporting , the exact reporting gap you face when executives demand concise evidence and you only have scattered notes.

What you get with this course

A populated threat intelligence repository template with 30 pre-classified sources.
An automated enrichment workflow diagram.
A triage decision matrix.
A full incident response playbook skeleton.
An evidence collection checklist for five common breach scenarios.
A RACI table for SOC, IR, and executive roles.
A KPI scorecard with baseline targets.
A board briefing template pack.
A post-incident review guide.
A continuous improvement roadmap.
A runbook for weekly playbook drills.
A curated list of open-source intel feeds.

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

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, threat intel repository template pre-populated for your environment, triage matrix ready for immediate use.

Week 1: first version of the incident response playbook live, evidence collection checklist applied to a recent alert, and a draft board briefing prepared.

Month 1: recurring weekly drill schedule running, KPI scorecard populated with real data, and a complete audit-ready evidence pack available for any incident.

Before and after

Before

Your team currently juggles multiple Excel logs, scattered email threads, and a handful of PDFs that never make it into a single audit-ready package. Incident response is reactive, with analysts scrambling for evidence while senior leaders receive vague status updates. The lack of a unified intel source forces repeated manual enrichment, and the next audit cycle looms with a risk of critical findings.

After

After the course, you have a live threat intelligence repository feeding directly into a scripted response playbook. Every incident follows a documented workflow, evidence is captured in a ready-to-audit pack, and you can present concise, data-driven updates to the board. The SOC operates on a predictable cadence, and you can demonstrate measurable improvements to leadership.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this, the next major breach will force you into emergency meetings with the CFO and audit committee, exposing you to personal performance reviews. The quarterly audit will flag incomplete evidence packs, triggering remediation plans and potential regulatory fines. Your credibility with senior leadership will erode, jeopardizing future budget approvals.

Who it is for

A Vice President leading a cyber security function in a large financial institution, overseeing threat detection, incident handling, and stakeholder reporting, who spends most of the day juggling alert triage, vendor coordination, and board briefings, and needs a repeatable, evidence-driven process to protect both the organization and their own career trajectory.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic 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, saving an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding time.

Why $199 is the right number

A half-day consultant would charge $2-5K for the same scope, generic compliance courses run $800-2K, and building this yourself takes 60+ hours of trial-and-error. At $199 you get a proven playbook and artefacts that deliver faster ROI.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with threat intel platforms?

No, the course starts with the basics and quickly moves to practical integration steps.

Will the playbook work with our existing ticketing system?

The templates are format-agnostic and include mapping guidance for any major ticketing tool.

Is this course suitable for a team that already has a loose incident response process?

Yes, it refines and formalizes what you have into a repeatable, auditable framework.

How much time will I need to allocate each week?

Expect about 4-6 hours of focused work over a week to complete the modules and artefacts.

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.