Intelligence Research I—Scoping

This foundational course teaches how to analyze, prioritize, and fully understand requests for information (RFIs), and create a research plan to keep intelligence research efforts on track.

Students can learn to uncover stakeholder intent so that their intelligence analysis can be actioned. They can gain the ability to fully interpret implicit and explicit RFIs by identifying relevant context from intelligence requirements, organizational threat profiles, and key stakeholder analysis.

They can also see how to use a research management system to organize research and avoid information overload, and assess source relevance and trust to provide efficient and focused collections efforts.

Prerequisites: Students should have taken Cyber Intelligence Foundations or have equivalent knowledge.

After completing this course, learners should be able to:

• Use a structured, repeatable four-step scoping process
• Generate context by referring to the organizational threat profile, key stakeholder analysis, and intelligence requirements (and how to proceed if these aren’t available)
• Prepare for collections efforts by developing a research management system
• Proactively assess different kinds of information and sources to avoid wasting time on irrelevant or unreliable sources

This is a foundational level course for cyber practitioners who must scope and respond to formal and informal requests for information (RFIs).

On-demand

8 hours

Content is available for 3 months from the date of first login.

It can be accessed 24/7 from a standard web browser.