Cyber Intelligence for Decision Makers
With the rapidly changing nature of cyber threats and high-profile exploitations of vulnerabilities, organizations are recognizing the need to address the systemic analytical challenges of cyber intelligence.
This course presents a non-technical approach to cyber intelligence for organizational managers and decision-makers. It explains the important contextual understanding of cyber intelligence with regard to your organization and the organizational roles and competencies involved. This asynchronous, video-based course enables managers and executives to understand what cyber intelligence means for their organization and how to use cyber intelligence to improve the way they make decisions. You will learn a structured approach that can be applied to your organization to understand, evaluate, and assess cyber intelligence vulnerabilities using the Analytic Framework from the research of the SEI Cyber Intelligence Tradecraft Project.
The eLearning course contains two hours of video instruction and exercises that apply the concepts presented.
Audience
- Executives
- Managers
- Team Leads
Objectives
At the completion of the course, learners will understand:
- The role of cyber intelligence for your organization
- The cyber threat environment for your organization
- The role of the executive leader regarding organizational cyber intelligence practices
- Potential risk factors in the absence of preventative measures
- Core competencies and skills recommended for an intelligence team
- The use of an analytical framework to develop analytical acumen for cyber intelligence
Topics
- The Definitions of Cyber Intelligence and Related Concepts
- Cyber Intelligence in the Workplace - Organizational roles
- Cyber Intelligence in the Workplace - Operations
- Analytical Threat Engagement
- Assessing and Prioritizing Threats
- Preventative Cyber Intelligence Measures
- Skills Required for Intelligence Analysts
Materials
This course is taught by SEI research scientist Jay McAllister by means of recorded video lectures. Course exercises are included to assist your comprehension of the concepts presented. Learners will also be able to access additional resources related to the subject matter, including a downloadable copy of the course presentation slides.
Prerequisites
This course has no prerequisites.
To access the SEI Learning Portal, your computer must have the following:
- For optimum viewing, we recommend using the following browsers: Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari
- These browsers are supported on the following operating systems: Microsoft Windows 8 (or higher), OSX (Last two major releases), Most Linux Distributions
- Mobile Operating Systems: iOS 9, Android 6.0
- Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome and Safari follow a continuous release policy that makes difficult to fix a minimum version. For this reason, following the market recommendation we will support the last 2 major version of each of these browsers. Please note that as of January 2018, we do not support Safari on Windows.
This is an eLearning course
Course Fees in USD
- eLearning $100
Schedule
Your access period will begin once you have been added to the SEI Learning Portal and launch the course.
Learners will have 90 days to complete the course. Once registered, learners will be granted 24-hour-a-day access to the course material for 3 months. Learners can proceed through the course at their convenience and can review and repeat individual sections as often as needed. Upon completing all course elements, the learner is awarded an electronic certificate of course completion.
If you wish to purchase this course for a group of learners, please email courseregistration@sei.cmu.edu or telephone at +1 412-268-7388 for group rate details.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute offices will be closed for winter break, December 21, 2024-January 1, 2025. SEI course registrations received during this period will be confirmed and enrollment completed upon our return on January 2, 2025.
Course Questions?
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Phone: | 412-268-7388 |
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