Event details
Mandiant Academy Training Event
- Course: Intelligence Research I—Scoping (on-demand)
- Date: 3 months to complete from the date of enrollment (not from the date of first login)
- Cost: $2,000 USD or 2 units
- Delivery Method: On-demand (self-paced / web-based training)
- Location: Mandiant Academy learning platform
At a glance
This foundational course teaches how to analyze, prioritize, and fully understand requests for information (RFIs), and create a research plan to keep intelligence research efforts on track.
Students can learn to uncover stakeholder intent so that their intelligence analysis can be actioned. They can gain the ability to fully interpret implicit and explicit RFIs by identifying relevant context from intelligence requirements, organizational threat profiles, and key stakeholder analysis.
They can also see how to use a research management system to organize research and avoid information overload, and assess source relevance and trust to provide efficient and focused collections efforts.
Prerequisites: Students should have taken Cyber Intelligence Foundations or have equivalent knowledge.
Course goals
After completing this course, learners should be able to:
- Use a structured, repeatable four-step scoping process
- Generate context by referring to the organizational threat profile, key stakeholder analysis, and intelligence requirements (and how to proceed if these aren’t available)
- Prepare for collections efforts by developing a research management system
- Proactively assess different kinds of information and sources to avoid wasting time on irrelevant or unreliable sources
Who this course helps
This is a foundational level course for cyber practitioners who must scope and respond to formal and informal requests for information (RFIs).
Duration
8 hours
What to bring
Students should use their own laptop with the latest browser of choice (Google Chrome preferred) and a stable internet connection of at least 10 mbps.
