Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Advanced Training Course

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