Treadstone 71 Training and Webinars

Intelligence Community-Driven Content  - Free Short Course from Treadstone 71

This free course provides an overview of the Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst online instruction as well as pre-recorded webinars on Stakeholder Management, Adversary Targeting, Intelligence Requirements, STEMPLES Plus, and Collection Management.

The short course provides an overview of:

• Treadstone 71 History
• Training and Webinar Approach
• Risk versus Intelligence
• Forecasts - Estimates
• Cyber Intelligence Lifecycle
• Intelligence COmmunity Taxonomy
• Areas of Intelligence
• OPSEC - Data Provenance - Source Validation-Evidence Credibility
• Stakeholder Management
• Adversary Targeting
• STEMPLES Plus - Indicators of Change
• Intelligence Requirements
• Logical Adversaries
• Threat Matrices
• Collection Plans - Request for Information
• Structured Analytic Techniques
• Analysis of Competing Hypotheses
• Critical Thinking
• Cognitive Bias
• Types of Analysis - Reasoning Methods - Synthesis
• Production - Analysis - Interpretation - Intuition - ATT&CK
• Analytic Writing
• Briefs and Reports
• Argument Mapping

See our Summer of Cyber 2021 Courses - In-Person - Fort Myers, Florida July 17-August 6 below

This is an on-demand course that runs up to 12 weeks.

20% VETERANS DISCOUNT

The online courses are instructor video and audio recorded with periodic direct interaction with the instructor via online web meetings. The instructor will have standard office time for questions and answers as well as regular access via class email and other messaging options.

Validated and registered students will receive login and preparation information 1 week prior to class start. Prospective students must send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. from a corporate account to validate course eligibility before registration. (Corporate accounts are not Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail, Hushmail, Protonmail, and the like). Treadstone 71 reserves the right to restrict course registration based upon certain risk factors.

This course follows (non-inclusively) the International Association for Intelligence Education Standards for Intelligence Analyst Initial Training.

• Introduction to Intelligence
• Critical Thinking
• Analytic Writing
• Creative Thinking
• Analytic Briefing
• Structured Analytic Techniques.
• Analytic Issues
• Argument Mapping
• Case Studies

Latest student testimonial: 

"With my extensive experience working in the Department of Defense on active duty and federal contractor, this training provided industry professionals with a greater perspective for intelligence analysis. The training taught state of the art concepts and applied them to real-world scenarios establishing a solid understanding of using these intelligence tradecrafts to effectively predict and prevent cyber actors from exploiting their organizations. Individuals new to the cyber intelligence field or professionals who want to fine-tune their skills in the intelligence field should strongly consider this training for any intelligence analyst or security professional."

• Anonymity and Passive Persona setup
• Collection Methods and Techniques - WITH AN ADDED LECTURE ON COLLECTION MANAGEMENT
• Collection Planning, IRs/PIRs/EEIs/Indicators/SIRs WITH AN ADDED LECTURE ON INTELLIGENCE REQUIREMENTS
• Collection Process Flow
• Collection (OSINT) Tools and Targeting
• Threat Intelligence WITH AN ADDED LECTURE ON ADVERSARY TARGETING (D3A AND F3EAD) AND THREAT MATRICES
• Most likely Threat Actors
• Hunch.ly
• Use of Maltego – overview
• OPSEC – VPNs, Buscador, Authentic8 Silo - WITH AN EXTENDED OPSEC LECTURE
• OSINT Browser – Oryon C Portable
• Proxy Access – the DarkNet
• Burn phone set up and use (US Only)
• Open Source Intelligence OSINT
• Production Methods
• Structured Analytic Techniques – Their use
• Adversary Denial and Deception
• Source Credibility and Relevance
• Source Validation
• Denial and Deception
• Confidence Levels
• Types of evidence
• Production Management
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Cognitive Bias
• Glossary and Taxonomy
• What Intelligence Can and Cannot Do
• Use of Mitre ATT&CK in Analysis
• ATT&CK in examining patterns and trends
• ATT&CK in Adversary tendencies
• Estimation and Forecasting
• Campaign analysis
• Types and Methods of Analysis
• Synthesis and Fusion
• Analysis of Competing Hypothesis
• Inductive/Abductive/Deductive Reasoning
• Stakeholder Identification, and Analysis WITH AN ADDED LECTURE ON STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
• Analytic Writing, BLUF, AIMS
• Forecasting in your writing
• STEMPLES Plus, Indicators of Change WITH AN ADDED LECTURE ON STEMPLES Plus, Indicators of Change and Hofstede Principles
• Argument Mapping
• Types of Reports
• Product Line Mapping
• Report Serialization, and Dissemination
• Live Case Studies – Class briefs
• All Case Studies use all methods, techniques, and tools referenced in the course material. The Case Studies used are straight from the headlines giving students real world experience during the class.

All students receive 2 books and 50 plus course documents, VPN, and other course material.

ONLINE - Cyber Intelligence Tradecraft Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst from Treadstone 71.

Registration starts runs periodically as defined on the main Cyber Intelligence Training Center registration page.The online courses are instructor video and audio recorded with periodic direct interaction with the instructor via online web meetings. The instructor will have standard office time for question and answer as well as regular access via class email and other messaging options.

Validated and registered students will receive login and preparation information 1 week prior to class start. Prospective students must send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. from a corporate account to validate course eligibility before registration. (Corporate accounts are not Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail, Hushmail, Protonmail, and the like). Treadstone 71 reserves the right to restrict course registration based upon certain risk factors.

Analytic Writing

The Treadstone 71 Analytic Writing, Reporting, and Dissemination course cover intensive writing training, exercises, the peer review process, briefings and reviews, report types, and dissemination techniques. We follow the intelligence community and proven academic methods validated and verified through years of execution. The course covers non-inclusively:

Analysts and analysts alone create intelligence. Although technological marvels assist analysts by cataloging and presenting data, information, and evidence in new ways, they do not do analysis. To be most effective, analysts need an overarching, reflective framework to add structured reasoning to sound, intuitive thinking. “Critical thinking” provides such a framework and goes further, positively influencing the entire intelligence analysis process. Analysts who adopt critical thinking stand to improve their analyses. This paper defines critical thinking in the context of intelligence analysis, explains how it influences the entire intelligence process, explores how it toughens the art of intelligence analysis, suggests how it may be taught, and deduces how analysts can be persuaded to adopt this habit.

Do you know your biases? Do you know those of your teammates? Does bias show up in your analysis and writing?

A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality.

This course, created in 2008, continues to morph and update cyber intelligence changes. Learning critical thinking and cognitive bias must be a part of your cyber threat intelligence program. These are perishable skills. Get with the program here.

July 19-23 Fort Myers, Florida

Marriott Luminary Hotel

2200 Edwards Drive, Fort Myers, FL 33901

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Normal Retail Price: $5299.00

Early bird registration: $3990.00

This course presents the student with foundational concepts and processes in the discipline of cyber counterintelligence with a focus on cyber counterintelligence missions, defensive counterintelligence, offensive counterintelligence, and counterespionage as these realms apply to traditional tradecraft, and how they are or will evolve into the cyber domain. The course includes a very different approach to counterintelligence using models exhibited online over the past few years to steer the conversation to the desired outcome.

SALE ongoing Early Bird discount of $1000.00! This course takes from the best of the intelligence community, academia, years of hands-on activities to move your cyber threat intelligence program to a sustainable model adding real value to all stakeholders. We set students up for success building a model that moves cyber threat intelligence functions to the role of trusted advisor assisting in business decision-making. The course not only educates the student but prepares the student to educate leadership, integrate into corporate business processes while delivering timely intelligence. We help students get to the point where they really understand the challenges of corporate decision-makers using inside and outside sources.

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The course is timely, contextually needed, and moves the market while establishing the cyber threat intelligence analyst as a true discipline greatly needed in all corporate environments.

The Treadstone 71 Analytic Writing, Reporting, and Dissemination course cover intensive writing training, exercises, the peer review process, briefings and reviews, report types, and dissemination techniques. We follow the intelligence community and proven academic methods validated and verified through years of execution.

Luminary Hotel & Co., Autograph Collection

https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/rswak-luminary-hotel-and-co-autograph-collection

The course covers non-inclusively: