Intelligence
“Intelligence is a bit of a different animal in the information security career field. It still requires many of the same base skills as an incident response analyst, albeit maybe not to the same level of depth, but has the added requirement of understanding intelligence: the intelligence lifecycle, collections, developing various types of intelligence analysis, and ultimately creating timely and relevant intelligence products,” said Travis Farral, director of Security Strategy at Anomali.
Farral explained that there are two primary tracks into information security intelligence. One is through traditional intelligence training (either through a university or through military training). The other common path to a career in intelligence is learning skills in the intelligence field as an information security professional, but this path requires a lot of legwork for interested candidates to expand out of traditional security into the nuanced intelligence knowledge.