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

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.

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.

8 to 12 Weeks - On-Demand - Online

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.

Strategic Intelligence Analysis - Warning Intelligence

The course runs over five consecutive days covering Monday through Wednesday. Students are expected to attend each hour of each day since the course is comprehensive with each day building upon the next. Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks/tea are provided. Lunches are usually working lunches. Class minimum is 12 with a maximum of 20. 

Strategic Intelligence Analysis is the overarching discipline the covers the entire spectrum of Cyber Intelligence, Strategic Analysis includes operational, tactical, and technical functions, those that get the most attention yet flounder without the full understanding of strategic intelligence. From threats and warnings, advisories and estimates, Strategic Intelligence Analysis is the foundation and source suitable to from preventive and proactive defensive tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Strategic Intelligence Analysis hedges your risk by fully using lawful collection methods driving towards a zero-risk model unattainable but worthy of focused, business effort.