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Cyber Threat Intelligence Mastery

Develop hands-on skills to collect, analyse and interpret cyber threat data from multiple sources, enabling informed and timely security decisions.

6 Weeks
Vinit Sinha

Instructor

Vinit Sinha

What you'll learn

Collect threat data from OSINT, dark web, and commercial threat feeds
Apply MITRE ATT&CK and Cyber Kill Chain frameworks to classify threats
Analyse indicators of compromise (IoCs) and threat actor TTPs
Produce structured threat intelligence reports for technical and non-technical audiences
Use SIEM tools to correlate events and identify anomalies
Build a repeatable threat intelligence process for your organisation

Requirements

  • Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls)
  • Familiarity with cybersecurity fundamentals is helpful but not required
  • A laptop with internet access for lab exercises

About this course

In today's threat landscape, the ability to gather, process, and act on threat intelligence is a non-negotiable skill for any security professional. This course takes you through the full threat data lifecycle — from collection across open-source, dark web, and proprietary feeds, to structured analysis using proven frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and the Cyber Kill Chain. You'll leave with practical skills that translate directly to real-world security operations roles.

Course curriculum

24 lessons
  • What is threat intelligence and why it matters
  • Types of threat data: tactical, operational, strategic
  • The intelligence cycle applied to cybersecurity
  • Introduction to threat actor profiling

Your instructor

Vinit Sinha

Vinit Sinha

Director — Cybersecurity (APAC), Mastercard

4.8 instructor rating

Vinit Sinha leads cybersecurity for Mastercard's APAC region, where he designed and runs the Cyber Risk Quantification programme and directs region-wide cyber crisis simulation exercises. He is Immediate Past President of ISACA New Delhi and an EC-Council Advisory Board member, with prior leadership roles at Pine Labs (Head of InfoSec, Cyber & Data Privacy), Wipro (Practice Head — Cybersecurity), and EXL (AVP Corporate Audit) spanning payment security, GRC, DevSecOps and information security. He holds OSCP, CSX-P, CDPSE and CCNA Cyber Ops certifications, and is an IIM Calcutta alumnus.