Threat Intelligence Essentials

Threat Intelligence Essentials introduces the cyber threat landscape and intelligence lifecycle. Learners examine sources, indicators, adversaries, campaigns, TTPs,...

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Programme overview

Threat Intelligence Essentials introduces the cyber threat landscape and intelligence lifecycle. Learners examine sources, indicators, adversaries, campaigns, TTPs, analysis techniques, intelligence platforms, threat hunting, information sharing, and reporting. Participants will work with representative logs, alerts, intelligence, cases, and analyst workflows to improve monitoring, investigation, threat hunting, and reporting skills.

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At a glance

Course code: EC-034
Provider: EC-Council
Category: Threat Intelligence Fundamentals
Status: By Enquiry
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What participants should gain

Explain cyber threat intelligence and its organisational value
Identify reliable intelligence sources and collection methods
Analyse basic indicators, adversary behaviour, and attack techniques
Use intelligence to support monitoring, risk, and threat hunting
Communicate findings through concise intelligence reports

Participant readiness

Basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts
No previous threat-intelligence experience required
Suitable for students, junior analysts, risk teams, and security professionals

Who this course is for

SOC analysts, threat-intelligence analysts, incident responders, and threat hunters
Security analysts responsible for monitoring, investigation, detection, or reporting
Cybersecurity professionals seeking structured blue-team and intelligence skills

How the course is delivered

This programme will be conducted through interactive lectures, SOC workflow demonstrations, log and alert analysis, guided investigations, threat-intelligence activities, case-management exercises, reporting, and knowledge checks.

Course outline

Module and topic breakdown

Module 1: Threat Intelligence Fundamentals

Strategic, operational, tactical, and technical intelligence and their audiences

Module 2: Cyber Threat Landscape and Adversaries

Current threat categories, adversary motivations, capabilities, targets, and operating patterns

Module 3: The Intelligence Lifecycle

Initiation, requirements, data, design, development, testing, deployment, operation, monitoring, and retirement

Module 4: Intelligence Requirements and Collection Planning

Objectives, stakeholders, operating model, responsibilities, and decision processes for Intelligence Requirements and Collection Planning

Module 5: Open-Source, Technical, and Community Intelligence Sources

Core concepts, terminology, and purpose of Open-Source, Technical, and Community Intelligence Sources

Module 6: Indicators of Compromise and TTP Analysis

Tactics, techniques, and procedures as descriptions of adversary behaviour

Module 7: Threat Actors, Campaigns, and Malware Context

Malware types, capabilities, infection vectors, persistence, command and control, and objectives

Module 8: Threat Intelligence Tools and Platforms

Strategic, operational, tactical, and technical intelligence and their audiences

Module 9: Threat Hunting and Security Operations Integration

Operational processes for monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and assurance

Module 10: Intelligence Sharing, Reporting, and Ethics

Sharing communities, trust groups, traffic-light protocol, standards, and information-handling rules

Assessment and completion

Continuous knowledge checks and facilitator feedback throughout the programme
Completion of guided exercises, scenarios, labs, or case-study activities applicable to the course
Final review or practical activity to confirm understanding of the stated course objectives
Official EC-Council examination and certification requirements depend on the selected training package and current exam version

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