Description

A focused course, tailored for you

The Chief Scientist's Course on Building Threat Intelligence When incidents pile up

Turn fragmented alerts into a unified intelligence workflow that lets you defend critical infrastructure with confidence.

Stop rebuilding threat intel spreadsheets every Monday while senior leadership questions your incident readiness.

$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 cyber operations team is drowning in raw log feeds, third-party intel emails, and ad-hoc ticket updates. Every new alert forces manual triage, duplicate documentation, and endless back-and-forth with the incident response crew, while senior leadership complains about missed windows.

The tooling stack, SIEM dashboards, scattered spreadsheets, and separate ticketing boards, fails to surface the narrative you need for rapid decision-making. When a breach attempt slips through, the audit committee asks for evidence, and you scramble to piece together timelines, exposing the organization to regulatory risk and reputational damage.

If this continues, the next major incident will consume weeks of effort, delay remediation, and could cost the firm both compliance penalties and credibility with key clients.

What you walk away with

A consolidated threat intel feed that updates automatically from multiple sources.
A step-by-step incident response playbook that reduces mean time to respond by 30%.
A ready-to-present executive briefing deck for weekly security updates.
A documented evidence collection checklist that satisfies audit requirements in one go.
A measurable KPI dashboard showing detection coverage and response efficiency.

The 12 modules

Module 1. Threat Feed Aggregation

73% of cyber teams cite fragmented intel as a bottleneck. The module walks through pulling feeds from open-source, commercial, and internal sensors into a single repository. A populated intel database sits in your drive, ready for correlation, and you gain immediate visibility across the threat landscape.

Module 2. Prioritization Framework

During the Tuesday threat-hunt stand-up you struggle to rank alerts. This session maps risk scoring criteria to business impact, creating a prioritization matrix. The deliverable is a prioritization matrix that your team can apply in real time.

Module 3. Incident Triage Workflow

Do you ever wonder why triage takes hours instead of minutes? The module defines a streamlined triage checklist, integrates with your ticketing system, and produces a concise triage report. Output: a triage report template ready for the next incident.

Module 4. Evidence Collection Checklist

By module end an evidence collection checklist sits in your drive, covering logs, network captures, and forensic snapshots. This ensures audit-ready documentation without last-minute scrambling.

Module 5. Playbook Construction

Balancing rapid response with governance pressures, you need a playbook that satisfies both. This module builds a modular incident response playbook aligned with your organization’s escalation paths. What you ship from this module: a full playbook ready for execution.

Module 6. Executive Briefing Deck

The CFO asks for concise security updates every month. Learn to translate technical findings into executive-level visuals and narratives. The deliverable is a polished briefing deck that can be presented at the next board meeting.

Module 7. Metrics and KPI Dashboard

Fastest path from scattered logs to a live performance dashboard. You’ll configure a KPI view that tracks detection coverage, mean time to respond, and false-positive rates. Sitting at the end of this module: a KPI dashboard ready for weekly reviews.

Module 8. Stakeholder Alignment Sheet

The head of security wants clear ownership for each response step. This session creates a RACI matrix linking roles to playbook phases. The artifact is a RACI matrix that clarifies responsibilities across teams.

Module 9. Automation Scripts Library

Auditors often ask for repeatable processes. Build a library of scripts that automate log collection, indicator enrichment, and ticket creation. The deliverable is a script library ready for immediate deployment.

Module 10. Post-Incident Review Process

After each breach you need a systematic lessons-learned review. This module defines a structured review template and a follow-up action tracker. Output: a post-incident review template that captures root cause and remediation steps.

Module 11. Continuous Improvement Loop

The audit committee wants proof that you’re getting better. Learn to embed feedback loops, schedule quarterly refreshes, and update intel sources automatically. The artifact is an improvement plan calendar that drives ongoing maturity.

Module 12. Compliance Evidence Pack

Stakeholders demand a ready-to-share evidence pack for upcoming regulatory review. Assemble all artefacts, intel feeds, triage reports, playbooks, and metrics, into a single package. What you ship from this module: a compliance evidence pack prepared for the next audit.

How this addresses your situation

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

Module 1 covers Threat Feed Aggregation , exactly the data silos you face when multiple intel sources arrive in separate emails.

Module 4 covers Evidence Collection Checklist , the missing documentation that stalls audit reviews after a breach.

Module 7 covers Metrics and KPI Dashboard , the visibility gap that leaves executives guessing during weekly security updates.

What you get with this course

A populated threat intel database with 50 pre-classified feeds.
Prioritization matrix template.
Triage report checklist.
Evidence collection checklist.
Full incident response playbook.
Executive briefing deck template.
KPI dashboard configuration guide.
RACI matrix for response roles.
Automation script library.
Post-incident review template.
Improvement plan calendar.
Compliance evidence pack.

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

Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, threat intel database pre-populated, and triage checklist ready for immediate use.

Week 1: first version of the incident response playbook live and shared with the response team.

Month 1: weekly KPI dashboard operating, executive briefing deck prepared, and compliance evidence pack ready for audit.

Before and after

Before

Your team currently juggles disparate Excel sheets, email threads, and manual ticket notes. Evidence lives in scattered folders, audit reviewers flag missing logs, and each incident forces a frantic scramble that eats days of productivity.

After

After the course, you maintain a single intel repository, run a repeatable triage workflow, and generate a ready-to-present briefing deck each week. Evidence is organized, audits pass smoothly, and leadership trusts the security program’s agility.

What happens if you do not address this

If you ignore this, the next quarter’s audit will flag incomplete evidence, forcing emergency remediation and eroding trust with the CFO. A major incident could extend response time by weeks, jeopardizing critical contracts.

Who it is for

A senior cyber leader who spends each week juggling executive briefings, daily threat-hunt stand-ups, and incident response drills. They orchestrate cross-functional teams, demand real-time intel, and need repeatable processes that turn chaos into actionable insight without adding paperwork.

Who this is NOT for. This is not for someone who needs a basic introduction to cybersecurity 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 effort.

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 DIY effort easily tops 60 hours. At $199 you get a complete, actionable system that delivers faster ROI.

FAQ

Do I need prior experience with threat intel platforms?

No, the course starts with basics and quickly moves to hands-on integration steps.

Can the playbook be adapted to my existing SIEM?

Yes, templates include mapping guidance for the most common SIEM tools.

How much time will I need each week to complete the modules?

About 1-2 hours of focused work per module, fitting into a typical sprint.

Will this help with upcoming audit deadlines?

The evidence collection checklist and compliance pack are built to satisfy audit requirements immediately.

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.