Cyber Threat Information and Data-analytics (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

Purpose:
You understand the principles of threat intelligence, its types and exploitability in cyber defense. You learn to utilise data analytics methods in handling great amounts of data from cyber security perspective. You understand the significance of enriching the data with external data sources.

EUR-ACE Competences:
Multidisciplinary competences 
Knowledge and understanding 
Engineering practice 
Communication and team-working 

Learning outcomes:
You know the basic concepts of threat intelligence, you understand the purpose of threat intelligence and data-analytics, you can apply correct methods to the specific problems, and you can do data-analytics using Python programming language.

Content

Content:
Principles and forms of threat intelligence
Exploitability of threat intelligence
Methods of data analytics in handling data and exploitation
Enriching threat intelligence with external sources

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Sufficient 1: You know superficially the principles and types of threat intelligence in cyber defense. You are able to select the most common methods for the problem to be solved and are able to apply the most common methods. Additionally, you are able to give a constricted assessment of their implementation and justify the conclusions.

Satisfactory 2: You knows the principles and types of threat intelligence in cyber defense. You are able to select the most common methods for the problem to be solved and you are to apply their technical competence to practice. Additionally, You are able to assess their implementation superficially and justify the conclusions.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good 3: You know the principles, types and exploitability of threat intelligence in cyber defense. You are able to select the most common methods for the problem to be solved and are able to apply their technical competence to practice. Additionally, you are able to assess their implementation versatilely and justify the conclusions.

Very good 4: You know the principles, types and exploitability of threat intelligence in cyber defense. You are able to select the correct methods for the problem to be solved and are able to apply their technical competence to practice. Additionally, you are able to assess their implementation versatilely and justify the conclusions.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: You know the principles, types and exploitability of threat intelligence in cyber defense. You are able to select the correct methods for the problem to be solved and are able to apply their technical competence to practice. Additionally, you are able to assess their implementation critically and justify the conclusions.