By the time most organizations notice they have been breached, an attacker has often been inside the network for weeks or months already. Even the best preventative controls cannot eliminate that risk entirely — what determines the real damage is how fast the organization detects the incident and how well-prepared its response actually is.

This Arab British Fellowship Training Academy course builds that preparedness directly. Participants learn to design an early-warning capability, read threat intelligence and the cyber kill chain, and run an incident response team through the critical “Golden Hour” after a breach — turning incident response from a document nobody reads into a capability the organization can actually execute.

Who Should Attend?

• Risk management professionals and IT auditors.
• Information security engineers and managers, and IT managers.
• Operations managers and IT / system / network administration professionals.
• Business continuity and disaster recovery staff.
• Senior management and executives responsible for planning and preparing for cyber threats.
• Technical or non-technical professionals who want to understand how to respond to a cyber-attack.

Knowledge and Benefits:

After completing the program, participants will be able to master the following:

• Increase the organization’s ability to protect, detect, and respond to cyber-attacks.
• Design an early-warning system that lowers discovery time from months to days.
• Understand and improve cyber-resiliency through more cost-effective, risk-based decisions.
• Apply threat intelligence and the Cyber Kill Chain to lower risk and speed up response.
• Build actionable, fit-for-purpose response plans, checklists, and processes.
• Understand the “Golden Hour” and the basics of incident triage, OODA, and the Diamond Methodology.

Module 1: Legal Foundations and the Response Team

• Key definitions and legal requirements that underpin incident response
• The structure, role, and responsibilities of the incident response team

Module 2: Detect Before It’s Too Late

• Designing an early-warning system for the organization
• Building cyber-resiliency through better, risk-based decisions
• Protecting, detecting, and responding to cyber-attacks as one continuous process

Module 3: Establishing Your Baseline “Normal”

• Why knowing what “normal” looks like is the fastest way to spot an incident
• How a clear baseline reduces response time and human error

Module 4: Reading the Attacker: Threat Intelligence and the Kill Chain

• The latest techniques and insights on incident response
• Threat intelligence-led testing
• Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain, stage by stage

Module 5: Stopping Attacks and Building the Response Framework

• The best methods to stop most cyber-attacks in progress
• Designing and implementing a response framework
• Building an effective cyber response team around that framework

Module 6: The Golden Hour: Triage, Detection, and Incident Management

• Understanding the “Golden Hour” and why it is critical to managing an incident
• The basics of incident triage, the OODA loop, and the Diamond Methodology
• Detection and monitoring practices that keep the response on track