Certificates
Udemy:
Google – IT Support Professional Certificate: The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking
CREST – Network Security and Cyber threat analyst
—> all the really important basic knowledge to get started
Coursera:
Yonsei University – Introduction to TCP/IP
University of Michigan – Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)
IBM – Cyber Threat Intelligence
Building knowledge
Loads, but the Risky Business (Biz) weekly newsletter and podcast, the Cyberwire newsletter & podcast, and Bellingcat/ Recorded Future are good starting points
To get an impression on what the outcome of CTI is, look at the blogs/ reports of:
- Microsoft Threat Intel team: how to track:
– https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2022/12/03/preparing-russian-cyber-offensive-ukraine/
– https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2021/04/01/automating-threat-actor-tracking-understanding-attacker-behavior-for-intelligence-and-contextual-alerting/ - Google Threat Intel team:
– https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/fog-of-war-how-the-ukraine-conflict-transformed-the-cyber-threat-landscape/ - Palo Alto Unit 41: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com
- Mandiant: https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog, e.g. https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/information-operations-surrounding-ukraine
Thomas Rid is a super well known author in the CTI field, worth to read his stuff/ books.