Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence and Hunting

Detect APTs and zero-day attacks using CTI, behavioral analytics, and AI techniques

GTDS

Created by Gianluca Tiepolo, Dan Sorensen

Learn how to uncover advanced persistent threats and zero-day attacks using cyber threat intelligence, behavioral analytics, and AI-driven detection. Move beyond reactive alerts and start proactively identifying sophisticated adversaries across modern IT environments.

Packt | Apr 2026 | 656 min

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LevelExpert

CategoriesCybersecurity, Digital Forensics and Incident Response

1Revisiting CTI for Advanced Threat Hunting
2Understanding APTs – Actors, Motivations, and TTPs
3Deep Dive – CTI Collection and Enrichment for APTs
4Core Principles of Proactive Threat Hunting
5Understanding Data Sources for Threat Hunting
6Hunting Zero-Days Through Behavioral Signatures
7Advanced Hunting Techniques and Queries
8Hunting Delivery and Initial Access
9Hunting for Exploitation and Execution
10Hunting for Persistence and Privilege Escalation
11Hunting for Lateral Movement and Discovery
12Hunting for Command and Control
13Hunting for Collection, Exfiltration, and Impact
14Attribution – Challenges and Techniques
15Behavioral Clustering for Zero-Day Detection
16Hunting in Cloud and Specialized Environments
17Building a Resilient Threat Hunting Program
18Emerging Trends in Threat Hunting and CTI

What You Will Learn

You will practice building and testing CTI-driven hypotheses, mapping attacker behavior with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, and using hands-on detection techniques. By analyzing real-world attack scenarios, you'll apply behavioral analytics and machine learning to spot threats that evade traditional tools. The focus is on actionable, repeatable methods for threat hunting in complex environments.

Key Features

Develop intelligence-led hunting strategies to detect APTs and zero-day threats
Apply behavioral analytics and machine learning to spot stealthy attacker activity
Investigate threats across cloud, hybrid, and enterprise environments with practical workflows

Target Audience

Designed for cybersecurity professionals with experience in defense and incident response, this content is ideal for threat hunters, analysts, and responders who want to move from reactive detection to proactive hunting. If you're looking to bridge the gap between cyber threat intelligence and real-world application in live environments, you'll gain practical skills to advance your threat hunting capabilities.

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