Cyber Counter Intelligence Course

This course presents the student with foundational concepts and processes in the discipline of cyber counterintelligence with a focus on cyber counterintelligence missions, defensive counterintelligence, offensive counterintelligence, and counterespionage as these realms apply to traditional tradecraft, and how they are or will evolve into the cyber domain. The course includes a very different approach to counterintelligence using models exhibited online over the past few years to steer the conversation to the desired outcome.

Cyber Infiltration 

Information Operations 

Standard Glossary and Taxonomy 

Mission-Based Counterintelligence 

Counter Collection and Anticipation 

Denial and Deception 

Counter-Denial and Deception 

Open Source Intelligence in Deception Operations 

VPNs and Burn Phones (US Only) 

Methods of Social Media Research 

Social media demographics 

Cyber Target Acquisition and Exploitation 

Identify 

Active Adversary Campaigns 

Intent, Motivation, Goals, & Requirements 

Passive data collection 

Campaign development 

Vectors of approach 

Courses of action 

Elicitation and exfiltration 

Memetic Engineering

Content Creation 

Propaganda and Fallacies

 Media Manipulation 

Charts, Graphs, Generators 

Deception Planning 

Deception Chain 

Types of Denial and Deception 

D&D Usage 

Perception as Deception 

Avoid and Deny 

Shifting the Conversation 

Forum Manipulation - COINTELPRO 

Social Psychology 

Persuasion Differences in Culture/Diversity 

Hofstede Dimensions 

Reciprocity and Consistency 

Social validation 

Liking, Authority, and Scarcity 

Rules of Disinformation 

Information Warfare

Operational Security 

Cyber Psychological Operations 

Target analysis and manipulation 

Authoring of blogs and articles for influencing 

Placement of specific concepts and phrases 

Cyber Persona Layer 

Cyber Persona Development and Maintenance 

Character archetypes 

Establish the storyline 

Establish the plot synopsis 

Story weaving and management 

Target profiles – dossiers 

Target gap analysis 

Clandestine Collection Operation 

Surveillance and Counter Surveillance 

CI Insider Threat, Investigations 

Guide to Underhanded Tactics 

Rules for Radicals 

Case Studies 

Team Presentations