📓 Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) 101

🚧 Putting all my notes into one spot. Notes from learning CTI. I have used Andy Piazza's Cyber Threat Intelligence Study Plan and Katie Nickels' A Cyber Threat Intelligence Self-Study Plan as guides. I have also gone through a stack of CTI analyst job ads to find the skills hiring managers want.

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Table of Contents

Basics

• 💻 How Computers Work

  • Computer Software
  • Computer Hardware
  • Data + Storage

• 🍰 Networking Fundamentals

  • The Internet
  • Bit Sending
  • IP Addresses + DNS
  • Packets, Routing + Reliability
  • TCP
  • The OSI Model

• 📐 Security Architecture

  • Essential Security Principles
  • Fundamentals of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
  • Security Architect Role + Tools
  • Identity and Access Management
  • Endpoints
  • Networks
  • Application Security
  • Data Security
  • Detection
  • Reponse

• 📕 Cybersecurity Concepts

  • Basic Threat Landscape
  • Different Types of Malware
  • Basic Mitigation Strategies

• 🦠 Common Attack Types

• 🔒 Encryption Standards

• 🖊️ Writing with Clarity

  • Clarity
  • Influence
  • Story
  • Grammar
  • Audience
  • Structure
  • Message

• 🖊️ Threat Intel for Everyone: Writing Like A Journalist To Produce Clear, Concise Reports

  • Key elements of writing CTI reports
  • Inverted Pyramid of News
  • CTI report Structure
  • Headline | Subject Line
  • Lead
  • Nutgraf
  • Conclusion
  • Deadlines
  • Clean Up Your Writing
  • Resources

• 🔬 Threat Research

  • Analysing scam SMS

• 🦠 Malware Analysis

  • Setting up a malware analysis lab

• Study APT Reports

• Critical Thinking

• Intelligence Analysis Fundamentals

  • 📘 Reading Psychology of Intelligence Analysis, Richard J. Heuer, Jr.

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