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Cyber Threat Intel: Strategic Priorities

Cyber threat intelligence is vital to modern security operations. This course will teach you how to analyze, apply, and evaluate threat intelligence to support informed security decisions.

Kevin James - Pluralsight course - Cyber Threat Intel: Strategic Priorities
by Kevin James

What you'll learn

Organizations struggle to keep up with evolving threats without clear, actionable intelligence. In this course, Cyber Threat Intel: Strategic Priorities, you’ll learn to analyze, apply, and evaluate cyber threat intelligence to support informed security decisions. First, you’ll explore the purpose and impact of threat intelligence across strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Next, you’ll discover how the intelligence lifecycle turns raw data into useful insights through structured collection, analysis, and feedback. Finally, you’ll learn how to assess different intelligence sources and apply core concepts like indicators, observables, and TTPs in real-world scenarios. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of threat intelligence needed to strengthen security operations and support risk-based decision-making.

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Kevin James - Pluralsight course - Cyber Threat Intel: Strategic Priorities
Kevin James

As a seasoned technologist with over 30 years of wide-ranging expertise in information technology roles across diverse industries, Kevin is passionate about finding effective and economical solutions to business problems. His passion for teaching technical subjects allows him to have a particular style that imparts information yet teaches at the same time. He enjoys working with Linux, Unix and Windows Operating Systems and combined with a deep knowledge of software platforms as varied as Apache, MySQL, and others, has enabled him to successfully manage and maintain server infrastructures of all sizes, with his largest project encompassing over 800 servers across 4 continents. He believes in leveraging technology as a tool to make lives better and business flow more efficiently.

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