The Strategic Intelligence Analysis Plus Building and Enhancing Your CTI Program is a 60 CPE-credit, 12-week (expandable to 16 weeks) on-demand training program that combines the full Strategic Intelligence Analysis curriculum — estimative and warning intelligence, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH), structured analytic techniques, two-part analytic writing, and CIA/DIA-derived tradecraft — with 10 additional program-build lectures covering stakeholder analysis, adversary targeting with the STEMPLES Plus framework and Hofstede principles, intelligence requirements management, collection management with MITRE ATT&CK integration, and Cyber Threat Intelligence organizational structure design. Graduates produce decision-ready estimative and warning intelligence assessments while simultaneously building or maturing their organization's CTI program from charter to operational delivery — earning both the Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst Certification and Strategic Intelligence Analyst credential in a single course.
What You Will Learn
The full Strategic Intelligence curriculum plus 10+ CTI program-build lectures with hands-on templates and artifacts
- Full Strategic Intelligence Analysis curriculum — estimative and warning intelligence, the management brief, project briefing, intelligence lifecycle, and every topic from the standalone Strategic Intelligence course
- OPSEC, Hunchly tradecraft, and cyber personas — data provenance discipline, rules of engagement, OPSEC rules for strategic analysts, and cyber persona construction for collection operations
- Stakeholder analysis and intelligence requirements management — stakeholder tracking, intelligence requirements lifecycle, essential elements of information (EEIs), and priority intelligence requirements (PIRs)
- Adversary targeting with STEMPLES Plus and Hofstede principles — adversary baseball cards, targeting matrices, STEMPLES Plus framework (Social, Technical, Economic, Military, Political, Legislative, Educational, Security + Demographic, Religion, Psychological), indicators of change, and Hofstede cultural principles applied to STEMPLES Plus
- Collection management with MITRE ATT&CK integration — source evaluation, collection planning, segmentation and valuation of sources, OSINT tooling, and MITRE ATT&CK framework integration into collection workflows
- Full ACH and Structured Analytic Techniques suite — Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, argument mapping, deception detection, key assumptions check, outside-in thinking, pre-mortem assessment, what-if analysis, devil's advocacy, force field analysis, link analysis, scenario analysis, and hypothesis generation
- Cyber Order of Battle and Wargaming — order of battle analysis, recognition of cyber buildup, preparation for cyber warfare, cyber wargame design, objectives, and execution
- CTI organizational design and analyst professionalism — Five Levels of Strategic Analysis Professionalism, profile of an analyst, functional and behavioral competencies, competency models, CTI organizational structure, and centralized versus decentralized intelligence function design
What You Will Be Able To Do After
Concrete operational capabilities upon completion
- Produce estimative and warning intelligence assessments meeting CIA and DIA tradecraft standards with calibrated confidence language
- Build or mature a Cyber Threat Intelligence program from initial charter through operational delivery across planning, collection, analysis, production, and review
- Conduct adversary targeting using STEMPLES Plus, Hofstede principles, and adversary baseball card methodology
- Design and document a CTI organizational structure with vision, mission, goals, measures, SOPs, and stakeholder integration paths
- Execute Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, argument mapping, and a full suite of Structured Analytic Techniques on contested or fragmented intelligence problems
- Run cyber wargaming exercises, order of battle analysis, and recognition of cyber buildup against state-actor adversaries
- Integrate MITRE ATT&CK into collection management, adversary targeting, and analytic frameworks
- Brief executive and operational audiences using two-part analytic writing tradecraft (BLUF, AIMS, ICD 203-equivalent confidence language)
Who This Is For
- Strategic intelligence analysts and senior CTI analysts building or directing organizational intelligence programs
- Intelligence program leads and CTI managers responsible for program charter, maturity assessment, and operational delivery
- Government and defense analysts requiring IC-grade strategic analysis training with CPE credit and program-build deliverables
- CISOs and security leaders developing in-house intelligence functions or evaluating outsourced intelligence partners
- Cyber threat intelligence platform (TIP) selection committees and intelligence program architects designing tooling and process
- Analysts pursuing dual certification — Strategic Intelligence Analyst and Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst credentials in a single curriculum
- Cross-discipline analysts (military, financial crimes, law enforcement) transitioning into cyber-domain strategic and program leadership roles
Prerequisites
- No formal prerequisites required — open enrollment, civilian-accessible (no clearance required)
- Recommended: foundational cyber intelligence, security analysis, or analytic discipline background in any domain
- Helpful: prior CTI or intelligence program experience; familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and the intelligence lifecycle
- Technical: a workstation capable of running OSINT tools, document templates, MITRE ATT&CK Navigator, and browser-based analytic platforms; corporate or institutional email address for enrollment validation
How Strategic Intelligence + CTI Program Build Differs From Other Training
Most CTI training is either analytic-tradecraft only (SATs, writing, briefings) or program-build only (charters, SOPs, TIP selection). This course is the only commercial curriculum that combines both — full Strategic Intelligence Analysis tradecraft plus 10+ additional program-build lectures with templates, adversary targeting matrices, requirement flows, collection plans, and organizational design artifacts. Two credentials in one course, with STEMPLES Plus and Hofstede principles as proprietary T71 frameworks.
| Dimension | T71 Strategic + CTI Program Build | Typical Alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Full Strategic Intelligence Analysis + 10+ program-build lectures with templates and artifacts | Strategic OR program build, not both |
| Credentials awarded | Strategic Intelligence Analyst + Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst (dual credential) | Single credential |
| STEMPLES Plus framework | Full module with Hofstede principles and indicators of change applied to adversary analysis | Not addressed (T71 owns this framework) |
| MITRE ATT&CK integration | Integrated into collection management and adversary targeting workflows | Standalone ATT&CK training without collection integration |
| Cyber wargaming | Cyber order of battle, recognition of buildup, wargame design and execution | Not addressed |
| Analyst professionalism model | Five Levels of Strategic Analysis Professionalism with competency models | Not addressed |
| Program-build artifacts | Stakeholder maps, requirement matrices, SOPs, collection plans, TIP selection criteria, organizational structure | Theoretical instruction without deliverable artifacts |
| Civilian access | Open enrollment, IC-grade methodology, no clearance required | Government or clearance-restricted for true estimative training |
Treadstone 71 is a veteran-owned, woman-led cyber intelligence firm operational since 2002, codifying CIA and DIA-style intelligence tradecraft for the cyber domain. The firm's foundational capability rests on a rare synthesis of United States Air Force cryptologic linguistics (Arabic and Russian), United States Army armored reconnaissance, academic study of Middle Eastern and Russian history, language, and political systems at Trinity College, Middlebury College, and Colgate University, and direct in-country immersion in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the formative years of the modern jihadist movement (1988–89). A Master of Science in Information Assurance from Norwich University extends the field tradecraft into enterprise-scale risk management. The aggregate methodology has been continuously refined across four continents of operational engagement.
Treadstone 71 was honored with the 2007 RSA Conference Award for Excellence in the Field of Security Practices and the 2007 SC Magazine Award for Best Security Team. Operational engagements span clandestine cyber HUMINT (including sustained adversary persona operations within Al-Qaeda and Taliban networks), real-time OSINT support to the Boston FBI following the 2013 Marathon bombing, FBI special-agent OSINT instruction, and senior-leader briefings at NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CyCon, Estonia), the United States Naval Academy, the Air Force Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins. Treadstone 71 is a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance and holds board seats with Boston InfraGard, the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and the Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare.
From 2009 to 2014, Treadstone 71 codified field-tested clandestine cyber tradecraft into the first master's-level cyber intelligence curriculum, established at Utica College, with parallel instruction in Information Security Risk Management at Clark University. The Cyber Intel Training Center is the operational continuation of that curriculum — IAFIE-aligned, PHIA-standards-compliant, and listed in the CISA NICCS cybersecurity workforce development catalog. Treadstone 71 has authored or contributed to The Illusion of Due Diligence — Notes from the CISO Underground, Current and Emerging Trends in Cyber Operations, and multiple editions of the Computer Information Security Handbook, and appears as a primary subject-matter expert on CNN, CBS News, Fox News, BBC Radio, BBN, and i24News.
Beyond training, Treadstone 71 delivers active Cyber Intelligence Program Build engagements — vision and mission development, 36-month strategic plans, policies and procedures, SOPs, KPIs and CSFs, stakeholder integration, TIP selection and rollout, and intelligence maturity assessments for commercial, defense, and federal clients across four continents.
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On-demand enrollment opens immediately on purchase. Twelve weeks of structured curriculum (extendable to 16 weeks) with assignments, quizzes, hands-on case studies, peer review on deliverables, and curated NATO / CIA / Dutch Defense intelligence readings. Dual credentialing: Strategic Intelligence Analyst and Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst.
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