Critical thinking and reasoning in cyber threat intelligence

The concept of intelligence analysis and the utilization of analytic methods for the creation of analytic judgments or hypotheses was not something that was created in the cyber field. In fact, these techniques were adopted from the larger intelligence analysis community. Further, a lot of the concepts we are bringing to you come from Richards J. Heuer, Jr. who was a veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the United States with over 45 years of service. His work focuses on utilizing competing hypotheses to produce intelligence and even lay out models to overcome the natural biases that impede clear thinking and analysis. In 1999, the Center for the Study of Intelligence at the CIA published his book, titled Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, which is still referenced in the academic study of intelligence analysis. This book is freely available to anyone at https://www.cia.gov/static/9a5f1162fd0932c29bfed1c030edf4ae...