A colleague sent me this study plan, and I was so excited to dive in!
Here’s Katie’s intro to her plan:
There are many ways to learn. While some people prefer to have a live instructor in a course, others are great at doing self-study. I teach SANS FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence, which is a great course if you want to learn about cyber threat intelligence (CTI), but I realize not everyone can afford it.
Here’s the good news: if you are committed, you can learn a lot of the same concepts that paid courses teach, but on your own. It won’t be the same, but you can still learn a ton if this learning style works for you. I wanted to share a self-study plan to help out anyone who wants to take the initiative to learn about CTI. There are lots of great resources out there, but I realize as you’re starting out that someone saying “go look at all the things!” isn’t that helpful because you’re not sure where to look. My goal is to bring together free resources I’d recommend studying and provide a minimal framework and question to help tackle them.
Katie Nickels, https://medium.com/katies-five-cents/a-cyber-threat-intelligence-self-study-plan-part-1-968b5a8daf9a
She has the plan divided into five sections:
- Intelligence
- Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Requirements
- The CTI Community
- Frameworks and Models
And within each section there are
- books and articles to read and/or videos to watch
- things to do
- questions to think about
- optional paid resources that can supplement the free learning that just took place!
This plan is very thorough and will take quite a while! My plan is to take it step-by-step and work my way through from beginning to end. I created a study notebook, and it’s already filling up with the nuggets I’m learning.
I considered publishing my study notebook here, either as I go through each resource or at the end, but quickly thought better of it. There’s a lot of value in going through the resources and I don’t want to take that opportunity away from anyone! I will, however, post updates on how my study is going and post any extra helpful nuggets I learn along the way.
Today I started reading Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards Heuer, and it’s fascinating!
If you’re interested in Cyber Threat Intelligence, this study plan is a great resource that I’d definitely recommend!