EC Council CTIA: Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst

Prerequisites

To take the CTIA exam, you need to either: -

• Send in an application demonstrating at least two years of professional experience in the IT sector (All candidates are required to pay USD 100 as a non-refundable application fee)

OR

• Visit a certified EC-Council Partner (Authorized Training Center, iWeek, or iLearn) to participate in authorized EC-Council CTIA training (All candidates are required to pay the USD100 application fee unless your training fee already includes this)

Course Objectives

• Types of data feed, sources, and data collection methods
• Threat intelligence data collection and acquisition through Open-Source Intelligence(OSINT), Human Intelligence(HUMINT), Cyber Counter Intelligence(CCI), Integrators of Compromise(IoCs), and the pyramid of pain
• Key issues in the InfoSec domain 
• Creating effective threat intelligence reports 
• Bulk data collection and management( data processing, structuring, normalization, sampling, storing, and visualization
• Complete threat analysis process including threat modeling, fine-tuning, evaluation, runbook, and knowledge base creation
• Importance of threat intelligence in risk management, SIEM, and incident response.
• Threat intelligence program steps (Requirements, Planning, Direction, Review)
• Data analysis types and techniques including Statistical Data Analysis, Structured Analysis of Competing Hypotheses(SACH)
• Cyber kill chain methodology, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), Indicators of Compromise(IoCs), and the pyramid of pain    
• Different threat intelligence, sharing platforms, acts, and regulations for sharing strategic, tactical, operational, and technical intelligence 
• Various cyber threats, threat actors, and their objectives for cyber-attacks.
• Fundamentals of threat intelligence (including threat intelligence types, life cycle, strategy, capabilities, maturity model, frameworks, etc.
• Different data analysis, threat modeling, and threat intelligence tools.

About The Examination

C|TIA exam licenses cybersecurity executives to exhibit the expertise of their knowledge and proficiency required for threat intelligence.
Number of questions: 50
Duration: 2 hours
Test format: Multiple choices
Availability: EC-Council Exam Portal
Passing score: 70%