Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Advanced

• No special requirements

Audience

• Researchers
• Security analysts
• Investigators
• Law enforcement
• Government and military personnel

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) refers to any information that can legally be gathered from free, public sources about an individual or organization. OSINT also refers to the process of collecting this data, analyzing it, and using it for intelligence purposes.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at persons who wish to carry out research on third parties while protecting themselves from the like.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure advanced tools for carrying out OSINT.
• Use advanced techniques to collect publicly available data relevant to an investigation.
• Analyze large amounts of data efficiently.
• Generate intelligence reports on findings.
• Leverage AI tools for facial recognition and sentiment analysis.
• Map out a strategy for defining the objective and directing efforts to the most relevant and actionable data.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Overview of OSINT Principles and Approaches
• Understanding the Intelligence Cycle
• OSINT tools and techniques
• Ethical considerations in OSINT

Setting Up Your Environment

• Configuring your machine and ensuring a stable network connection

Installing Tools for OSINT

• Overview to OSINT Toolkits
• Configuring, installing, and customizing tools
• Best practices for tool management

Protecting Your Identity

• Obfuscating your activities
• Privacy and proxies

Ethical Data Collection and Transformation

• Accessing legitimate sources of data
• Mining the Dark Web in a secure and safe manner
• Ethical considerations in data mining practices
• Strategies for transforming raw data into valuable information

Monitoring Events in Real-time

• Observing and analyzing real-time data in OSINT investigations
• Exploring tools or platforms used

Targeting Corporate Bodies

• Collecting corporate information
• Mapping out corporate identities, structures and hierarchies

Targeting Individuals

• Collecting information on individuals

Assessing Consequential Actors

• Identifying potential threats to government, economy, and safety
• Basics of criminal profiling

Ethical Data Extraction

• Scrutinizing website content through responsible scraping practices
• Strategies for analyzing and interpreting big data with adherence to legal guidelines

Practical Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in OSINT

• Understanding the role of Predictive Analysis in OSINT
• Exploring AI tools for visual and text analysis

OSINT for Financial Investigations

• How law enforcement tracks money
• Understanding credit card transactions and black markets
• Tracking cryptocurrency transactions

Summary and Next Steps