Freddy Murstad

Freddy holds several roles: he is the CEO, founder and lead instructor at Intelligence Tradecraft, the senior advisor of threat intelligence at Nordic Financial CERT (NFCERT), and a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).

At NFCERT, Freddy mainly works at the operational level generating strategic threat intelligence and decision-support. He builds intelligence reports and spends a lot of his time translating requirements and intelligence between the strategic and tactical levels.

As a PhD candidate, Freddy is researching the intersection of intelligence methodology and how it can be applied to cyber threat intelligence (CTI), also, how AI may change the way we do intelligence, and thus, how we do CTI.

Freddy is an ambassador for implementing intelligence methodology and rigor into cyber threat intelligence and frequently speaks about analytical processes in cyber security. He shares his knowledge, ongoing research, articles and PhD process with the community through his presence on LinkedIn.

Freddy is the chair of NFCERT’s threat intelligence committee (TIC), and he as a seat at FS-ISAC’s European threat intelligence committee (ETIC) and the FIRST CTI special interest group (FIRST CTI SIG), and a contributor to the curated intelligence community.

Qualifications Summary:

• More than 13 years of experience in various intelligence and cyber threat intelligence (CTI)
• Senior Advisor threat intelligence in the finance sector
• Instructor of Structured Analytic Techniques (SATs)
• Member of FS-ISAC European Threat Intelligence Committee (ETIC), Chair of NFCERT TIC, and member of FIRST CTI Special Interest Group (SIG)
• Guest lecturer at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
• Avid Speaker on CTI, Intelligence, and AI
  • Contributing Member of the Curated Intelligence trust group

Presentations and Podcasts:

• OSINT Curious – Intelligence Architecture Mind Map
• SANS CTI Summit 2023 – The Way to a Stakeholder’s Heart is by Providing Value: Measuring Success of Your CTI Program
• Mnemonic – Communicating Threat Intelligence to Management
• FIRST CTI 2023 – Foresight Analysis: The Magic Eight Ball of Intelligence Analysis
• Unspoken Security – How to Demonstrate the Value of Cyber Threat Intelligence

GIAC Certifications:

• GCTI – GIAC Cyber Threat Intelligence

Training:

• SANS FOR589: Cybercrime Intelligence Course
• Pherson Intelligence Analysis Professional (IAP)

Education:

• Norwegian Business School, bachelor’s in marketing and HR
• University of St Andrews: master’s in Terrorism and Political Violence
• King’s College London: master’s in Intelligence and International Security