The Big 5 in Cyber Intelligence

What is it? How to recognize traits? Maladaptive modes and manipulation

In this training we will cover what the Big Five is, how you may be able to recognize traits in a cyber persona, how the Big Five relates to both the Myers-Briggs and Nine Enneagrams models, as well as how to recognize and manipulate a Big Five type in their maladaptive mode.

Using the Big Five model to create a cyber persona involves understanding the traits associated with each dimension and tailoring them to construct a personality that aligns with your desired online identity.

The Big Five personality traits, also known as the Five-Factor Model or OCEAN (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism), are widely used in psychology to describe and measure human personality. The use of the Big Five technique in influence operations can provide several benefits.


Your Instructor


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


  The Big Five in Cyber Intelligence - What it is, how to recognize traits, maladapted behaviors, under pressure and stress
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When does the course start and finish?
The course starts when you enroll. Timeframe to complete the course depends on the number of lectures, assignments, and student availability. Meaning, we are flexible.

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