Resecurity® Certified Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (RCCTIA)
Learn to turn scattered threat data into intelligence that people can act on.
About this course
Learn to turn scattered threat data into intelligence that people can act on. Across four days you will define requirements, plan collection, evaluate sources, enrich indicators, profile actors and campaigns, and reach assessments you can defend.
Exercises use enterprise and financial-sector scenarios, and an integrated capstone brings the whole lifecycle together, preparing you for the RCCTIA credential. You finish able to write and brief intelligence for both analysts and executives.
What you'll learn
- Run the full threat intelligence lifecycle from requirements to feedback.
- Set and prioritise intelligence requirements, including priority intelligence requirements (PIRs).
- Build a collection plan and judge the reliability of each source, including OSINT.
- Enrich and link indicators, infrastructure and identity data to reveal wider activity.
- Profile threat actors and campaigns and state attribution with a clear level of confidence.
- Use structured analytic techniques to reduce bias in assessments.
- Turn intelligence into concrete actions for SOC, incident response and risk teams.
- Write and brief tactical, operational and strategic products for technical and executive readers.
Curriculum
- Data, information and intelligence
- Tactical, operational and strategic intelligence
- Planning, collection, analysis and dissemination
- Feedback and continuous improvement
- Identifying stakeholders and decisions
- Writing PIRs and supporting questions
- Prioritising requirements
- Measuring whether requirements are met
- Building a collection plan
- Open, technical and closed sources
- OSINT methods and safe research
- Source reliability and information credibility
- IOCs and their limits
- Domain, IP and certificate pivoting
- Identity and credential indicators
- Correlating indicators into activity clusters
- Actor motivations and capabilities
- Mapping behaviour to MITRE ATT&CK
- Campaign tracking
- Attribution and confidence levels
- Cognitive bias in analysis
- Analysis of competing hypotheses
- Key assumptions checks
- Estimative language
- Supporting detection and threat hunting
- Feeding incident response
- Intelligence for fraud and financial-sector teams
- Sharing standards and communities
- Writing tactical, operational and strategic products
- Executive briefings
- Integrated case study
- Capstone assessment preparation
Who it's for
Threat intelligence, SOC, DFIR, threat-hunting and fraud-intelligence professionals moving into or growing within intelligence roles.
Before you start
- Working knowledge of networking, common threats and basic security operations.
- Prior study or experience in security, investigation or a related field.
Prepares for
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