# Threat Hunting and Detection Engineering (Advanced) Course (Self-Paced)

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## Overview

This course is built for practitioners who already hunt and already write detections, and now need to grow that work into a program that holds up under scrutiny. You will learn a repeatable hunting methodology, analytic techniques that cut down on cognitive bias, and the full detection engineering lifecycle from requirement through retirement. Alongside that, you will pick up the validation and metrics practices that prove risk is actually coming down rather than just assumed to be.

What sets the course apart is that the methodology itself is government-sourced. Most threat hunting training teaches a vendor's proprietary model, but here the hunt process is built from NIST SP 800-53 RA-10 (Threat Hunting), NIST CSF 2.0 Detect outcomes, and the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis, a 2013 DoD technical report published through DTIC. Validation follows NIST SP 800-115 and the 2024 SP 800-55 measurement guidance, while ATT&CK mapping follows CISA's guide and its Decider tool. Every element traces back to a citable government publication, which a federal buyer can verify directly. That is rare in this market. In addition, this course counts toward the Cyber Defense & SOC Analyst certificate alongside SOC Foundations and Federal Incident Response, rolling into the Cyber Operations Professional credential.

## What you'll learn

- Stand up a repeatable hunting capability grounded in RA-10, CSF 2.0, and the Diamond Model
- Run a plan/conduct/report hunt process tied to CSF 2.0 Detect outcomes
- Structure findings across the Diamond Model's four vertices and pivot across related activity
- Map adversary behavior to MITRE ATT&CK using CISA's six-step process and the Decider tool
- Apply ODNI structured analytic techniques to counter confirmation bias and anchoring
- Benchmark program maturity against the CSF 2.0 Implementation Tiers
- Run the detection engineering lifecycle end-to-end, with validation per NIST SP 800-115
- Produce defensible performance measures using SP 800-53 assessments and SP 800-55

## Curriculum

#### Module 1

Foundations for Advanced Threat Hunting

#### Module 2

A Government-Grounded Threat Hunting Methodology

#### Module 3

Advanced Hunting Concepts

#### Module 4

The Detection Engineering Lifecycle

#### Module 5

Validation and Metrics

#### Module 6

Program Governance and Synthesis

#### Module 7

Capstone Project

#### Module 8

Final Assessment

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $1049