“Open sources often equal or surpass classified information in monitoring and analyzing such pressing problems as terrorism, proliferation, and counterintelligence. Slighting open source intelligence (OSINT) for secrets, obtained at far greater expense when available at all, is no way to run an intelligence community”
Stephen C. Mercado, CIA analyst
Information changes in a blink of an eye, and decisions are made with data that became irrelevant fifteen minutes ago.
Information changes in a blink of an eye and decisions are made with data that became irrelevant fifteen minutes ago. You should know everything possible when dealing with potential employees, competition, or adversaries. The internet houses all this information. A well-trained internet intelligence operator knows how to utilize all aspects of the internet to ensure that the proper personnel are kept informed of the data required to make the right decisions.
The internet allows you to find, organize, analyze and use this data in a timely and cost-effective manner. Yet the most effective ways to search the internet are relatively unknown. This course will equip you to search the internet in a way you never thought possible!
This course is designed for anyone who has an interest in using the internet in a more effective manner to conduct information gathering, research, and analysis. This course will also benefit anyone looking to increase their personal and corporate security on the internet. This course is available to anyone though may appeal in particular to:
- Government analysts and intelligence professionals;
- Corporate security professionals and business analysts;
- Law enforcement officers;
- Researchers and knowledge workers; and
- Private investigators
- Overview of the internet and how it works;
- Learn how to use the internet as an effective investigation and research tool;
- Learn how to better filter, collate, and analyze data from the internet;
- Awareness of security and privacy issues on the internet. How to protect yourself and how to increase the visibility of others.
- Learn how to create a proper search strategy for every situation.
- A comprehensive internet intelligence manual as well as various freeware applications housed on a hard drive
Day 1
08:00 – Intro & setup
09:00 – How the internet works
10:00 – How you interface with the web
11:00 – Set up web browser exercise
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 – Browser extensions
14:00 – Extension install
15:00 – Maltego
Day 2
08:00 – Search Engines
09:00 – Search engine advanced options
10:00 – Boolean Search
11:00 – Search exercise
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 – Social Media Search
14:00 – Multimedia Search
15:00 – Search Exercise
Day 3
08:00 – Anonymize yourself on the web
09:00 – Anonymize yourself on the web
10:00 – De-anonymize others
11:00 – Exercise
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 – Circumventing blocked sites
14:00 – Exercise
15:00 – Revealing sites meta data
Course itinerary is for reference purposes only and is subject to change without notice
This three-day course costs 499.99 plus applicable taxes