Threat Intelligence Essentials (TIE)

Description

Program Overview

• Designed for students, career starters, career switchers, and IT teams with little to no cybersecurity experience.

• Provides essential technical knowledge across the threat intelligence lifecycle, data collection, analysis, detection, and reporting.

• Emphasizes hands-on learning through real software, live virtual machines, and operational tools used in modern SOC and threat intelligence workflows.

• Helps learners understand how intelligence supports cybersecurity operations, compliance, risk management, and incident response.

Key Skills You Will Learn

• Fundamental threat intelligence terminology, concepts, and maturity models

• Differences between data, information, and intelligence

• Strategic, operational, tactical, and technical threat intelligence

• Understanding the cyber threat landscape, threat actors, IoCs, and attack vectors

• Data collection methods: OSINT, HUMINT, threat feeds, advisory platforms

• Using Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) such as OTX and MISP

• Threat intelligence analysis, prioritization, visualization, and reporting

• Threat hunting workflows and hypothesis-driven detection

• Threat intelligence sharing, collaboration, and regulatory considerations

• Integrating threat intelligence into incident response processes

• Emerging trends, technologies, and future career paths in threat intelligence

Hands-On Experience

• Install and use the DetectionLab SOC environment

• Guided labs on IoC detection, MITRE ATT&CK®, OSINT investigations, TIP usage, and threat actor profiling

• Hands-on threat hunts in a simulated environment

• A capstone CTF challenge to reinforce practical, real-world skills

• Work with actual tools, datasets, and threat intelligence frameworks used by security teams

Who This Course Is For

• Students, graduates, and early-career professionals exploring cybersecurity

• Individuals seeking a beginner-friendly path into threat intelligence or SOC roles

• Anyone interested in IoC analysis, threat hunting, cyber defense, or incident response

• IT, cloud, and cybersecurity professionals wanting to strengthen their foundational skills

• Organizations looking to upskill technical teams in threat detection and analysis

Training Features

• 18+ hours of premium self-paced video learning

• 900+ pages of e-courseware

• 5 hands-on practical lab exercises

• Capstone project with real-world CTF challenges

• 12-month courseware access and 6-month lab access

• Includes a proctored exam voucher (1-year validity)

• Earn EC-Council’s globally recognized certification

Exam Information

• • Exam Code: 112-57

  • Number of Questions: 75

  • Duration: 2 Hours

  • Format: Multiple Choice