Enrollment Now Open for Upcoming c-Watch Elections2020 Program

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We are under siege in the United States from malicious threat actors and fraudsters around the world threatening our elections. You can do something about it.

NCC is thrilled to continue to support the Cyber Resilience Institute (CRI). CRI has just announced its c-Watch Elections2020 program.

The NCC is a strong advocate for the advancement of cybersecurity-related trainings to fill a critical need for more cyber-aware and active students and professionals. The c-Watch 2020 training offers another three-week intensive course on the interdisciplinary domain of cyber intelligence, social media, and international cyberspace conflict.

In a time of unprecedented proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, the NCC believes this training is fundamental to increasing the security of our citizens, businesses, and government.

Join CRI and learn about some of the skills that you need to be a cyber observable threat hunter or a social media threat hunter.

Classes begin October 5th, 2020 and are open to students, mid-career professionals and anyone who wants to learn cyber threat intelligence. All classes are online. CRI and NCC would like to extend a special discount. When signing up, use offer code: F2020-NACC-010. More information on registration can be found at the following link: https://www.cyberresilienceinstitute.org/c-watch-2020/.

Early Bird Pricing is available until September 11th, 2020.

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“Such an amazing program, I can’t describe how excited I become every day during the month of training on Cyber Threat Hunting. …. I ended up loving it; the new tools and techniques we spent days and weeks learning and practicing were fantastic.”

— Marcelle Licciardi – Summer2020 c-Watch Graduate

Training Overview

Prerequisites?

There are no prerequisites for this course. This course is open to students, mid-career professionals or anyone who wants to learn Cyber Threat Intelligence. Bring your willingness to learn. You will get more out of it if you have some background in information technology, international affairs, geography, political science or a related field of study.

Course Length:

3 Week Intensive – Plus an Event-Driven Capstone

Delivery:

Online with individual research; Team collaboration and threat hunting occurs on a distributed basis, coached by mentors.

Tools:

Each Learner receives a user license and access to a repository of open-source tools and is trained on tool usage, tradecraft, and cross-domain hunting using tools like: threat intelligence platform (TIP), social media tools, analytic frameworks, and collection management resources.

Format:

The program includes lectures on foundational knowledge, user training, tool orientation, hands-on scenarios and labs, and alive, experiential collection and analysis operation during the Capstone. There are three separate areas of focus: Social Media Threat Hunting, Cyber Observable Threat Hunting, and Cyber Policy.

Schedule:

The next course kicks off October 5th, 2020.