Threat Intelligence & Hunting Certification
Hunt the adversary
Key facts
- Level: Professional
- Field: Cybersecurity & Information Security
- Estimated study time: about 32 hours
- Credential price: $213
- Exam: 60 questions · 90 minutes · pass mark 70%
About the Threat Intelligence & Hunting certification
Operationalize threat intel and proactive hunting: the intelligence lifecycle, MITRE ATT&CK, IOCs vs TTPs, hypothesis-driven hunting, detection engineering and turning intel into detections.
What you will learn
The official Threat Intelligence & Hunting study course covers:
- Foundations of Threat Intelligence — Establishes the core concepts, vocabulary, and lifecycle that underpin every threat-intelligence programme.
- MITRE ATT&CK Framework — Deep dive into the ATT&CK knowledge base — its structure, use cases, and how to apply it to detection, hunting, and intel analysis.
- Threat Actor Profiling and Adversary Intelligence — Build structured knowledge of threat actor groups, their motivations, and how to profile adversaries to anticipate their next move.
- Hypothesis-Driven Threat Hunting — Move from reactive alerting to proactive hunting — formulate, execute, and document structured hunt operations using real telemetry.
- Detection Engineering — Translate threat intelligence into durable, high-fidelity automated detections using Sigma, YARA, and modern SIEM platforms.
- Operationalising Intelligence: From Intel to Action — Close the loop between intelligence production and security operations — automating intelligence workflows, measuring programme effectiveness, and in…
- Exam Readiness: Threat Intelligence & Hunting — Consolidate all key concepts, understand the exam structure, and build a confident exam-day strategy.
- Hands-on Lab — From Intel to Detection — A threat-intelligence capstone in Google Colab: parse and prioritize IOCs with the Pyramid of Pain, profile a threat actor by ATT&CK TTPs, run a hypo…
Frequently asked questions
- Is the Threat Intelligence & Hunting certificate verifiable?
- Yes. Every issued Hootix Academy certificate carries a unique credential code that anyone can verify online.
- How is the Threat Intelligence & Hunting exam structured?
- It is a 90-minute ID-verified multiple-choice exam of 60 questions; you need 70% to pass.
- Do I need to buy the course to take the exam?
- Each certification is sold three ways: the exam on its own, the online course on its own, or both together as a Course + exam bundle (the bundle price is the course price plus the exam price).
- How long does the Threat Intelligence & Hunting course take?
- About 32 hours of self-paced study.