EC-Council Threat Intelligence Essentials - Self-paced

Course subjects

Module 1: Introduction to Threat Intelligence
This section will introduce you to the program and provide you with foundational information about threat intelligence. 

Module 2: Types of Threat Intelligence
This section will focus on helping students understand key distinctions and use cases for various threat intelligence types. Students will further understand how various sources generate threat intelligence and how it informs downstream cybersecurity processes or compliance functions.  

Module 3: Cyber Threat Landscape
This section will help students better understand the current state of cybersecurity threats, emerging trends, obstacles, and how current threat actors are impacting society. 

Module 4: Data Collection and Sources of Threat Intelligence
This section will teach students how to conduct searches or acquire threat intelligence from reputable sources. Students will also learn how to conduct Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) gathering activities and other threat intelligence collection methods directly.  

Module 5: Threat Intelligence Platforms
This section will show students how to access and use several leading Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), such as the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) and MISP. 

Module 6: Threat Intelligence Analysis
This section will show students how to access and use several leading Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), such as the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange (OTX) and MISP. This section will help students explore and apply data analysis techniques against acquired threat intelligence, including Indicators of Compromise (IoC) and tactics, techniques, or procedures generated by threat actors. Students will learn how to prioritise multiple threats, comprehensive threat intelligence reporting, and concepts for visualising threat intelligence data sets.

Module 7: Threat Hunting and Detection
This section will provide an operational overview of Threat Hunting, contemporary threat hunting methodologies, and tools or techniques students can leverage to perform hypothesis-driven threat hunts.

Module 8: Threat Intelligence Sharing and Collaboration
This section will discuss the benefits of threat intelligence information sharing, platforms used to share industry-specific threat intelligence, and the cybersecurity or regulatory concerns that influence information sharing. 

Module 9: Threat Intelligence in Incident Response
This section will discuss the benefits of threat intelligence information sharing, platforms used to share industry-specific threat intelligence, and the cybersecurity or regulatory concerns that influence information sharing. This section will discuss methods students can adopt to integrate threat intelligence effectively into cybersecurity Incident Response (IR) plans or processes. Concepts covered in this section include incorporating threat intelligence into triage, forensics, lessons learned, and other incident response processes.

Module 10: Future Trends and Continuous Learning
This section will discuss the impact of technological developments like Artificial Intelligence (AI) that are helping to drive innovation in the Threat Intelligence community. This section will also explore complementary educational sources that will allow them to enhance their professional development or pursue threat intelligence career options and approaches that are useful for staying current with modern threat intelligence practices. 

Refer to the T|IE Outline for a deeper dive into the T|IE curriculum.