Section 1: Cyber Threat Intelligence Life Cycle, Requirements, and Tradecraft
The section introduces the concept of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and breaks down its life cycle, explaining the main building blocks of threat intelligence life cycle and strategy. It also discusses intelligence requirements and their importance in a CTI program's success. The section, then, covers standards and tradecraft that analysts can apply to CTI programs. Finally, it concludes with practical use cases to help organizations and individuals adopt CTI. Upon completion of this section, you should have mastered the CTI life cycle, acquiring a global idea of what is required at each stage of the cycle; understand how to generate requirements and build an effective team for your CTI program; understand and use threat intelligence frameworks for threat and intrusion analyses; be familiar with different standards and tradecrafts adopted by the cybersecurity community, military, and intelligence agencies...