SEC595: Applied Data Science and AI/Machine Learning for Cybersecurity Professionals


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Contact UsAcross organizations, intelligence teams grapple with the following challenges: aligning the threat intelligence program with organization's business priorities, and articulating its tangible business value. How does a threat intelligence program ensure that insights on the current and emerging threat landscape reach the right stakeholders and ultimately safeguard business continuity and resiliency.
This presentation will delve into a requirements-driven framework for operationalizing threat intelligence to deliver measurable organizational impact.
You will learn how to:
- Develop stakeholder engagements by identifying stakeholders, a clear understanding on stakeholders needs, socializing CTI value, define use cases on ways intel can provide value, and expected outcomes
- Design and implement Intel Requirements that align with stakeholder priorities. Translating stakeholder use cases into intel requirements
- Build a collection management workflow that is aligned with intel requirements. We will delve into identifying collection sources, measure their usefullness and accuracy, and how to find new sources.
- Building an effective iterative process. We will explore how often the intel requirements should be be re-validated.
Whether you are establishing an intel program or maturing it, this session will highlight practical strategies for aligning threar intel with stakeholder needs.


Sydney Jones leads the Threat Management team at CLS Group. She co-founded the FinCyber Femmes group for women working in cyber and finance.
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Arun Warikoo leads the CIB Americas Threat Intelligence team at BNP Paribas. He founded BankGuard, an annual CTI event at BNP Paribas to foster external partnerships and enhance stakeholder engagements.
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