This course builds a foundation for understanding how cyber intelligence and counterintelligence can support cybersecurity and contribute more broadly to an enterprise or national security mission. It traces the history of cyber threats; evaluates the different forms of cyber conflict from hacktivism to cyber warfare; identifies and describes some of the key states and non-state actors posing a threat to cybersecurity; describe what is currently known about "insider threats" to information systems; examines how espionage (national and corporate) is evolving in the cyber realm; reviews research on cyber behavior and its implications for the "human dimension" of cybersecurity; and explores how to integrate technical, social and strategic data in cyber threat analysis.
Learning Objectives
Understand cyber intelligence
Framework Connections
The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):
Specialty Areas
- All-Source Analysis
- Cyber Defense Analysis
- Cyber Operations
- Exploitation Analysis
- Threat Analysis
Feedback
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