A focused course, tailored for you
The Operations Leader's Course on Building a Threat Intelligence Playbook When Incident Response Stalls
Turn fragmented alerts and endless fire-drills into a single, actionable intelligence process that protects your organization’s reputation.
Stop rebuilding the threat register every Monday while senior leadership waits for a clear incident response plan.
$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
Every week the SOC floods you with raw alerts, but the incident response team spends hours triaging without a clear prioritisation framework. The lack of a unified threat intelligence feed forces you to rely on ad-hoc spreadsheets, and senior leadership asks for proof of control before the quarterly board review. When a breach surfaces, you scramble to assemble logs, evidence, and a narrative, often missing the reporting deadline and exposing the company to regulatory penalties.
Your current tooling consists of disparate ticketing systems, isolated SIEM dashboards, and manual evidence collection that slips through the cracks during audits. The operational cadence is reactive, with nightly war-rooms that never produce a reusable playbook, leaving you vulnerable to repeat attacks and eroding confidence from the CFO and compliance officers.
What you walk away with
- A complete threat intelligence playbook ready for execution.
- A prioritized incident response matrix tied to business impact.
- Automated evidence collection templates that satisfy audit reviewers.
- A dashboard showing real-time risk scores for the top ten threats.
- A communication protocol that shortens board briefing prep to one hour.
The 12 modules
Module 1. Mapping Threat Sources
84 % of organizations miss high-value threat actors because they never map external sources to internal assets. In the weekly SOC sync you discover a gap between the threat feed and your asset inventory, forcing the team to chase false leads. By module end a curated threat source register sits in your drive, letting you instantly correlate alerts to business-critical systems and reduce investigation time.
Module 2. Prioritising Alerts
During the Monday morning incident triage you stare at a flood of tickets and wonder which one truly threatens revenue. The module walks through building a scoring rubric that weighs attacker intent, asset criticality, and exploit maturity. What you ship from this module: a calibrated alert prioritisation matrix that your analysts apply within minutes, cutting noisy noise by 70 %.
Module 3. Evidence Collection Blueprint
A question echoes in the war-room: "Do we have the logs needed for the audit committee?" The answer lies in a step-by-step evidence capture guide that aligns SIEM export, endpoint data, and network flow records. Output: a ready-to-use evidence pack template that satisfies auditors on the first pass, preventing repeat requests.
Module 4. Playbook Architecture
By module end a layered incident response playbook sits in your drive, organized by threat tier, response owner, and escalation path. This structure lets you hand the document to the CFO during the quarterly risk review and demonstrate a mature, repeatable process that aligns with board expectations.
Module 6. Automation Triggers
Speed versus accuracy creates tension: you want rapid containment but cannot sacrifice data integrity. The fastest path from raw alert to automated containment is mapped here, with a playbook snippet that defines trigger thresholds and response scripts. What you ship from this module: a set of automation rules that lock down compromised hosts within five minutes of detection.
Module 8. Threat Intelligence Enrichment
A stakeholder POV: the chief information officer wants assurance that intelligence feeds are current and actionable. The module shows how to ingest open-source feeds, enrich them with internal IOC data, and surface the top three actionable insights each day. Output: an enriched intelligence feed report that feeds directly into the prioritisation matrix.
Module 9. Incident Timeline Reconstruction
During the post-mortem you need to rebuild the attack timeline for legal counsel. This module provides a timeline reconstruction worksheet that aligns logs, alerts, and analyst notes into a coherent narrative. By module end a completed timeline sits in your drive, ready to be handed to counsel within the regulatory reporting window.
Module 10. Continuous Improvement Loop
A question haunts the SOC lead: "How do we prevent repeat incidents?" The module introduces a feedback loop that captures lessons learned, updates the threat register, and revises the playbook quarterly. The deliverable is a refreshed playbook version that you can roll out before the next compliance audit, ensuring perpetual readiness.
Module 11. Board Reporting Framework
The board expects a concise risk narrative each quarter. This module crafts a reporting framework that translates technical findings into business risk language, complete with visual risk heatmaps. What you ship from this module: a board-ready briefing pack that can be presented at the next governance meeting, aligning security posture with strategic objectives.
Module 12. Run-book Deployment Checklist
During the final deployment sprint you need to ensure every artifact is live and tested. This module provides a deployment checklist that validates playbook accessibility, automation rule activation, and stakeholder sign-off. Output: a completed run-book checklist that confirms the entire threat intelligence program is operational before the next incident window.
How this addresses your situation
Specific modules that map to what you said you are dealing with.
Module 1 covers Mapping Threat Sources , exactly the gap you see when alerts arrive without context during your daily SOC sync.
Module 3 covers Evidence Collection Blueprint , the exact pain point when auditors request logs and you scramble for missing files.
Module 5 covers Stakeholder Communication , the board briefing nightmare you face each quarter when you lack a concise risk narrative.
Module 10 covers Continuous Improvement Loop , the repeat-attack scenario that forces you back to the drawing board after each breach.
What you get with this course
- A populated threat source register with 30 vetted feeds.
- Alert prioritisation matrix template.
- Evidence collection pack with log export scripts.
- Full incident response playbook skeleton.
- Stakeholder briefing deck template.
- Automation rule set for rapid containment.
- Quarterly security metrics scorecard.
- Enriched intelligence feed report example.
- Incident timeline reconstruction worksheet.
- Continuous improvement checklist.
- Board reporting briefing pack.
- Run-book deployment checklist.
What you will have in hand by Day 1, Week 1, Month 1
Day 1: tailored playbook in hand, threat source register pre-populated, and evidence collection template ready for immediate use.
Week 1: first version of the alert prioritisation matrix live, integrated with your SIEM, and a draft board briefing deck prepared.
Month 1: recurring weekly SOC cadence runs from the new playbook, with automated evidence packs and a live risk dashboard presented to leadership.
Before and after
Before
Your SOC relies on scattered ticket sheets, ad-hoc email threads, and manual log pulls that break during audits. Evidence lives in personal drives, the threat register is a Word doc, and each incident forces a frantic scramble that stalls leadership reviews.
After
You now have a single, living threat intelligence register, automated evidence collection, and a polished playbook that feeds a real-time risk dashboard. Weekly cadence includes a concise board-ready briefing, and auditors receive a complete evidence pack on first request.
What happens if you do not address this
If you ignore this, the next Q3 board review will arrive without a unified threat register, forcing senior leadership to question the security program. The audit committee will demand a remediation plan, delaying budget approvals and exposing the organization to regulatory fines.
Who it is for
A senior operations executive who runs daily SOC oversight, chairs the incident response steering committee, and coordinates with finance and legal on breach impact. They spend their weeks balancing strategic roadmap meetings with urgent crisis calls, needing a repeatable intelligence workflow that integrates with existing tooling without adding bureaucracy.
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 and the payback saves an estimated 40-60 hours of internal scaffolding effort.
Why $199 is the right number
A half-day consultant would charge $2 500-$5 000 for the same scope, a generic compliance certification runs $1 200-$2 000, and building a playbook yourself takes 60+ hours. At $199 you get a turnkey solution with immediate ROI.
FAQ
Do I need prior experience with threat intel platforms?
No, the course starts with the basics and quickly moves to practical templates you can apply to any existing tooling.
Will the playbook work with our current SIEM?
Yes, the artefacts are designed to integrate with any SIEM that can export logs and alerts.
How much time will I need each week?
About 4 hours of focused work per week, spread over the 12-module schedule.
What if I need help customizing the playbook for my environment?
The hand-built implementation playbook is tailored to your specific context, and you get a brief consult call to align details.
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.
