The Cyber Threat Intelligence Program Design Playbook is now available

As cybersecurity threats have grown more sophisticated and prevalent, we’ve seen organizations develop robust cyber threat intelligence (CTI) programs to help bolster defenses. However, creating and maturing a CTI program remains a challenge because it requires people, processes, technologies, and metrics to validate success.

To help organizations better operationalize threat intelligence, we’ve published the CTI Program Design Playbook. This training track is the inaugural release from Mandiant Academy’s newest on-demand training, developed for professionals who actively defend networks. It’s designed to provide you with the essential knowledge and skills to design, build, operate, and optimize a CTI program from the ground up.

What you’ll learn: An overview

This track includes three two-hour courses addressing different aspects of CTI program development.

In the first course, Designing and Building a CTI Program, you will learn how to establish the foundations of a CTI program, including a CTI program charter and roadmap.

In the second course, Operating an Effective CTI Program, you will learn how to effectively identify and maintain a CTI program's stakeholders. This course also describes the resources necessary to collect, analyze, and disseminate threat intelligence while accommodating stakeholders' unique requirements.

Students who are part of an active CTI program but would like to mature their team’s capabilities may benefit from the third course, Optimizing an Efficient CTI Program. This course teaches you helpful ways to accurately measure a CTI program’s effectiveness and, where necessary, make improvements.

Who should take these courses?

This training track is the inaugural release from Mandiant Academy’s newest approach to on-demand training, which breaks the core tenets of effective cybersecurity strategies into discrete two-hour courses. This new style aims to address the needs of busy practitioners who already possess the knowledge and skills needed to defend networks but have limited time to enhance their capabilities. 

The CTI Program Design Playbook was developed for practitioners:

• Intelligence analysts supporting network defenders at the tactical, operational, or strategic levels

• Managers of active intelligence programs who would like to improve their team’s capabilities

• Cybersecurity practitioners who desire an intelligence capability

• Practitioners tasked with founding their organization’s first intelligence capability

Start learning today

To learn more about the CTI Program Design Playbook and to sign up for the course, please visit our website. You can access a wealth of knowledge through Mandiant Academy's on-demand, instructor-led, and experiential training options. We hope this course proves helpful in your efforts to defend your organization against cyber threats.