1. Target Audience

During this Tabletop Exercise (TTX) you play the role of an intelligence analyst helping a Baltic State ally counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) by a state actor. Your skills will be benchmarked against the British Government’s professional development framework for analysts. This immersive exercise enables you to operationalise policy from the British Government’s framework for building resilience to information threats, “RESIST 3”.

This practical, interactive, CPD-accredited course is designed for beginner or junior analysts working in the private and public sectors, with an interest in recognising and then building resilience to malign information threats.

2. Duration

0.5 day.

3. Delivery Mode

Client workplace / off-site classroom

4. Aims

You will learn how to identify narratives from strands of communication, structure your analysis using NATO’s briefing format for information threats, and consider behavioural science best practice to recommend proactive and reactive responses to information threats.

5. Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, you will:

• Have begun to recognise information threats, in order to increase resilience to unexpected, coordinated and harmful communication techniques.

• Have considered diverse information and applied critical thinking skills and analytical rigour.

• Have prepared a briefing using NATO’s briefing format for information threats.

• Have made recommendations for proactive and reactive communication responses to strengthen resilience.

• Worked collaboratively with others and evidenced analytical and assessment best practice as used by Western governments.

• Have a more-informed opinion of and what information threats mean to your own interests.