The seminar will cover some of the major technical pillars that rest on this foundation, including financial technology, Big Data, and Machine Learning. The seminar will later dive deeply into digital currencies and digital ledgers, computer viruses, Malware, and automation. The seminar will tie all this knowledge into a heuristic overview of the cyber intelligence industry, its major public and private players, and how they collaboratively work together to form defensive and, in some cases, offensive capabilities.

The primary purpose of this program is to be able to effectively provide national security and cyber intelligence professionals with a better understanding of cyber terrorism by compiling and extracting sound knowledge from scholars of the subject in an effort to analyze an appropriate, comprehensive definition of cyber terrorism. The webinar addresses motive, means, and opportunity as it applies to the use of cyber to cause terror and undermine national security. The program will also cover collections and cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by cyber terrorists, where bits and bytes could cause loss of life and destruction of critical infrastructure.

Vital Skills Analysis (VSA) introduces students to the skills required to conduct all-source cyber intelligence analysis, with emphasis on predictive techniques. It begins by introducing students to the basic principles of intelligence analysis, and then how those principles are applied using practical assignments. Students will select open-source cyber topics, research the information, and learn to write assessments. Through this methodology, students will apply the skills learned, gain experience writing one-page assessments, quick briefing of senior leaders, and defending their work. VSA serves as a common foundation for developing analytic skills in accordance with the standards and practices currently in use in the intelligence community.

This virtual seminar on "Introduction to the International Law Governing Cyber Operations" will address the international law appropriate to the evolving frontier of offensive cyber capabilities. In particular, the course is designed with an emphasis on Russian cyber activity and subsequent U.S. policy debates and responses. As the course progresses, students will be challenged and grapple with defining standards for the behavior of states in cyberspace that is in line with international law. Subsequently, students will examine tension areas in U.S.-Russian relations and learn how cyber capabilities affect interstate issues, both old and new.

Learn the components of a successful cyber security program from a people, process, and technology perspective. Focusing on people, the student will learn how to address cyber security challenges from a business/mission perspective. The student will learn how to work with technical and business teams to address critical cyber hygiene issues. When addressing process, the student will learn how to develop policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards that are effective and support their organization’s mission.

The Cyber intelligence Overview presents the acquisition and analysis of information to identify, track, and predict cyber capabilities, intentions, and activities. Learn how to add value to the information and to present actionable courses of action to the decision-maker. Understand the traditional intelligence tradecraft and how it is used in the cyber world to assess cyber threats, for intelligence analysis, and for counterintelligence. Learn about different types of cyber threat actors: state, non-state, and rogue actors. Get exposure to future innovations that are changing the cyber intelligence landscape.

The Cyber Intelligence Initiative (CII) Cyber Strategy Development (CSD) seminar provides students with a broad exposure to concepts and practices in the fields of strategy, planning, cyberspace, and intelligence. Students will examine, evaluate, and discuss existing cyber strategies and learn how to craft their own.

Technology Underpinning Cyber Intelligence will begin by introducing the main principles of cryptography and data security. Next you will learn about distributed ledgers, cryptocurrencies and reverse engineering. We will discuss what enables a country to become a cyber leader and have the capability for state sponsored terrorism, cyber conflict and cyber warfare. Learn about the Cloud and IoT (the Internet of Things) and why this improves an adversary’s opportunities to cause trouble. Finally, what can be done to mitigate this increased risk.

Slowly we will progress to develop some of the major technical pillars that rest on this foundation, including; financial technology, Big Data, Machine Learning and later diving deeply into digital currencies and digital ledgers, computer viruses, Malware and automation. Finally, we will tie all this knowledge into a heuristic overview of the cyber-intelligence industry and the major public and private players and how they collaboratively work together to form a defensive and in some cases offensive capabilities. 

The webinar reviews the elements of cyber intelligence and how they are applied in the commercial and government space. The webinar develops an understanding of fundamentals and the integration of those fundamentals and the strategic, operational and tactical considerations required to implement a program. This interdisciplinary program addresses the knowledge, skills and competencies essential to for today’s Cyber Intelligence Professional.