Personas and OPSEC

Ensuring operational security when using personae to passively collect on your targets.

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The Personas and OPSEC course covers methods of creating personas, the use of character archetypes, operational security in browsers, methods of OPSEC to use, as well as character generation using adversary tools. A must have training for anyone looking to perform passive collection in hostile open sources.


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Treadstone 71
Treadstone 71

Treadstone 71 is a woman and veteran-owned small business exclusively focused on cyber and threat intelligence consulting, services, and training. We are a pure-play intelligence shop.

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Since 2002, Treadstone 71 delivers intelligence training, strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence consulting, and research. We provide a seamless extension of your organization efficiently and effectively moving your organization to cyber intelligence program maturity. Our training, established in 2008, follows intelligence community standards as applied to the ever-changing threat environment delivering forecasts and estimates as intelligence intends. From baseline research to adversary targeted advisories and dossiers, Treadstone 71 products align with your intelligence requirements. We do not follow the create once and deliver many model. We contextually tie our products to your needs. Intelligence is our only business.

  • We use intuition, structured techniques, and years of experience.
  • We supply intelligence based on clearly defined requirements.
  • We do not assign five people to do a job only one with experience.
  • We do not bid base bones only to change order you to overspending.
We do not promise what we cannot deliver. We have walked in your shoes. We understand your pressures.

We are known for our ability to:

  • Anticipate key target or threat activities that are likely to prompt a leadership decision.
  • Aid in coordinating, validating, and managing collection requirements, plans, and activities.
  • Monitor and report changes in threat dispositions, activities, tactics, capabilities, objectives as related to designated cyber operations warning problem sets.
  • Produce timely, fused, all-source cyber operations intelligence and indications and warnings intelligence products (e.g., threat assessments, briefings, intelligence studies, country studies).
  • Provide intelligence analysis and support to designated exercises, planning activities, and time-sensitive operations.
  • Develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or no precedent exists.
  • Recognize and mitigate deception in reporting and analysis.
    Assess intelligence, recommend targets to support operational objectives.
  • Assess target vulnerabilities and capabilities to determine a course of action.
  • Assist in the development of priority information requirements.
  • Enable synchronization of intelligence support plans across the supply chain.
  • ...and Review and understand organizational leadership objectives and planning guidance non-inclusively.

Course Curriculum


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Frequently Asked Questions


How long do I have access to the course?
Four weeks although a week is usually enough.
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Once I enroll, what happens?
You receive an invitation email from Teachable.com, the online portal hosting our training classes. The email requires your registration into the course. One week before the course starts, we send you information on course requirements, what you will receive, links to other information, proper email addresses for books and other course information.
Course Cancellation Policy
If you wish to cancel your course registration, your registration fee will be fully refunded when written notification is received 30 days before class start. After that date, if you need to cancel your registration, please email [email protected] with the reason why you need to cancel. If you have accessed the content (i.e., the class has started) we will be unable to refund your registration fee. Refunds will be issued back to the original payment method used within 5-7 business days minus platform registration fees.

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