Resecurity® Certified Financial Cyber Intelligence Analyst (RCFCIA)
Bring cyber threat intelligence and financial-crime intelligence together.
About this course
Bring cyber threat intelligence and financial-crime intelligence together. Over five days you will analyse threats to banks, payment systems and digital channels, follow credential theft into account takeover and cash-out, and connect technical indicators with fraud, identity and transaction signals.
Case studies and investigation scenarios show how security, fraud, AML and compliance teams can share one picture of the threat. An integrated capstone prepares you for the RCFCIA credential and for briefing decision-makers.
What you'll learn
- Define intelligence requirements for banks, payment providers and their customers.
- Assess threats to banking infrastructure, cards, transfers and digital channels.
- Recognise where cyber attacks and fraud converge and combine their signals.
- Link technical indicators with identity, fraud and transaction data.
- Analyse credential theft, account takeover and cash-out networks.
- Profile financially motivated threat actors and campaigns, including dark web activity.
- Fuse intelligence across security, fraud, AML and compliance teams.
- Produce tactical, operational and executive products with clear recommendations.
Curriculum
- Stakeholders in a financial institution
- Requirements for security, fraud and AML
- Prioritising financial threats
- Measuring intelligence value
- Core banking and payment infrastructure
- Card and transfer fraud schemes
- Digital banking and mobile channel threats
- Third-party and fintech exposure
- Where attacks become fraud
- Combining technical and fraud signals
- Identity and device intelligence
- Transaction anomaly context
- Phishing kits and stealer malware
- Account takeover patterns
- Social engineering of customers and staff
- Detection and response options
- Mule networks
- Cash-out and laundering services
- Linking accounts to threat infrastructure
- Working with AML investigators
- Financially motivated actor profiles
- Campaign tracking
- Dark web markets for financial data
- Confidence and attribution
- Fusion team models
- Sharing between security, fraud and compliance
- Regulatory reporting context
- Feedback loops
- Tactical and operational products
- Executive briefings and recommendations
- Financial-crime case studies
- Integrated capstone
Who it's for
Financial-sector intelligence, fraud, AML, payment-security and banking security analysts, and fusion teams working across them.
Before you start
- Background in at least one of cybersecurity, CTI, fraud, AML or banking security.
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