Cyber Intelligence

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.