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A practical guide to the PECB Certified Cyber Threat Analyst (CCTA) — the 5-day, hands-on threat-hunting and cyber threat analysis certification for security professionals in Australia. Learn what it teaches, the 3-hour exam, real AUD cost, and how to certify.
The PECB Certified Cyber Threat Analyst (CCTA) is a 5-day, hands-on threat-hunting certification with a 3-hour exam across five domains, priced at $1,165 AUD through Aegentra, an official PECB partner.
CCTA gives you the advanced skills to identify, analyse, and mitigate cyber threats before they cause damage. It combines threat intelligence, cyber threat and attack frameworks, and threat modelling with practical labs, so you can proactively hunt threats across a network and run a structured hunt program end to end — prepare, execute, analyse, report, and continually improve. See the full course.
Proactive threat hunting complements incident response. It turns ASD ACSC threat advisories into hunt hypotheses, strengthens the ASD Essential Eight by verifying controls hold, supports APRA CPS 234 detection expectations, and helps SOCI Act critical-infrastructure operators surface adversary activity automated detection misses. Frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and the cyber kill chain give hunters a shared language for adversary behaviour.
Cyber Threat Analyst is proactive — hunting for threats before they trigger an incident. Certified Incident Responder is reactive — managing and remediating incidents once they occur. They are complementary blue-team disciplines, and a mature SOC needs both.
Day 1 covers threat-hunting frameworks, threat intelligence, and threat modelling. Day 2 prepares and executes a hunt program. Day 3 covers the analyse and knowledge phases and hunt reporting. Day 4 covers metrics, monitoring, culture, and continual improvement. Day 5 is the certification exam.
A 3-hour PECB exam using multiple-choice and scenario-based questions, pass mark 70%, remotely proctored so you can sit it from anywhere in Australia. It spans five competency domains from the fundamentals of threat hunting through to building a cybersecurity culture, monitoring, and continual improvement.
The course is $1,165 AUD (GST added at checkout) and includes 400+ pages of official materials, hands-on threat-hunting labs, the official PECB exam voucher, one free resit within 12 months, 31 CPD credits, and 12 months myPECB access. Delivered online or instructor-led in Melbourne and Sydney. Browse all Aegentra Academy courses.
Ideal for SOC analysts, incident responders, and blue-team engineers. There is no prerequisite to attend, but the full credential requires two years of threat-hunting, threat-analysis, and cybersecurity experience, plus signing the PECB Code of Ethics.