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Course Overview

In today’s complex threat landscape, reactive security measures are no longer sufficient. Organizations need actionable threat intelligence to anticipate, detect, and respond to evolving cyber risks.

This Threat Intelligence Analysis and Cyber Defense Training Course provides participants with practical skills to collect, analyze, and use intelligence to drive proactive defense strategies. It covers intelligence frameworks, data sources, adversary tactics, and integration with SOC and incident response workflows.

Through case studies, intelligence analysis exercises, and simulation labs, participants will gain expertise to build intelligence-driven cyber defense programs.

Course Benefits

• Strengthen intelligence-driven defense strategies.

• Analyze adversary tactics and emerging threats.

• Apply frameworks for structured threat intelligence.

• Improve SOC and incident response effectiveness.

• Build resilience against targeted attacks and APTs.

Course Objectives

• Explore fundamentals of cyber threat intelligence (CTI).

• Identify intelligence sources and collection methods.

• Apply analysis models (Diamond Model, Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK).

• Integrate CTI into SOC and defense workflows.

• Conduct hands-on intelligence analysis exercises.

• Build communication strategies for intelligence sharing.

• Develop long-term intelligence-driven defense programs.

Training Methodology

The course blends expert-led lectures, case studies, hands-on intelligence analysis labs, and SOC simulation exercises.

Target Audience

• Threat intelligence analysts.

• SOC teams and incident responders.

• Cybersecurity engineers and managers.

• Risk and defense strategy professionals.

Target Competencies

• Cyber threat intelligence analysis.

• Intelligence-driven cyber defense.

• Threat frameworks and modeling.

• SOC and incident response integration.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)

• Role of intelligence in cyber defense.

• Key definitions and lifecycle of CTI.

• Case studies of intelligence-driven defense.

• Importance of actionable intelligence.

Unit 2: Threat Intelligence Sources and Collection

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT).

• Commercial and community intelligence feeds.

• Dark web monitoring and HUMINT.

• Exercise: mapping intelligence sources.

Unit 3: Intelligence Analysis Frameworks

• Diamond Model of intrusion analysis.

• Cyber Kill Chain.

• MITRE ATT&CK for adversary mapping.

• Workshop: applying frameworks to a real case.

Unit 4: Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

• Integrating CTI with SOC workflows.

• Intelligence-led incident response.

• Tools and platforms for CTI management.

• Simulation: responding to an attack with CTI.

Unit 5: Building Long-Term Intelligence Programs

• Sharing intelligence across industries (ISACs).

• Building maturity in CTI programs.

• Future trends: AI in threat intelligence.

• Roadmap for intelligence-driven defense.

Ready to strengthen your defenses with intelligence-driven strategies?
Join the Threat Intelligence Analysis and Cyber Defense Training Course with EuroQuest International Training and gain the expertise to turn intelligence into proactive protection.