14-809 Introduction to Cyber Intelligence

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Cyber intelligence a phrase often used, but interpreted by government agencies, private companies, and the general public in many different ways. For the purpose of this course, cyber intelligence is the acquisition and analysis of information to identify, track, and predict cyber capabilities, intentions, and activities to offer courses of action that enhance decision making. Students will explore a different aspect of the definition each week to develop an analytic framework capable of discerning the interdependencies of and external influences on cyber intelligence, as it relates to an organizations environment, data gathering, functional analysis, strategic analysis, and decision maker. The framework will demonstrate how traditional intelligence practices and emerging technologies influence cyber intelligence empowering students to assess the likelihood of cyber threat actors executing attacks, the impact attacks have on an organizations business, and the risk threats pose because of an organizations known vulnerabilities.

Prerequisites: none listed

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