SUMMARY OF THE SHORT COURSES
These courses require no preparatory back-ground reading.
THE FIVE COURSES THAT ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE
THE FOUR DISTANCE LEARNING COURSES
AND THE THREE COURSES AVAILABLE FOR CLASSROOM DELIVERY.
The OSINT Training Course in 8 Modules
| Module | Description | Duration in Hours:Mins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | LOT | Assessment | Total | Detail | |
| 1 | Legislation & Ops Sec with Synthetic Identities | Introduces the legislation, guidelines and ethics that relate to the activities of OSINT practitioners with explanations of the processes for developing safe and effective policies and procedures & introduces and explains the ethical & responsible capacity of a Synthetic Identity (SI) and demonstrates, live on-line the creation and management of an effective SI by an OSINT practitioner. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 |  |
| 2 | Search Engines & Advanced Searches | Introduces a selection of Search Engines and different types of Search Engine, explains and demonstrates, live on-line, the various search queries and techniques that can be deployed to optimise the results. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 3 | Digital Files & Images | Introduces the many different types of digital files, including still and moving images; then explains and demonstrates, live and on-line, the techniques to locate and extract data and other intelligence from the material. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 4 | Emails & Phone Numbers | Introducing e-mail & telephony resources with explanations and live, on-line demonstrations of the techniques required to exploit these resources & introducing messaging apps as an investigative resource, with explanations and live on-line demonstrations of the techniques required to exploit the resource, including emulators. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 5 | Social Media Part 1 - LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter | Introducing the capabilities of Social Media as an investigative resource & processing users and the content they publish on Instagram, X (Twitter), Linkedin, Bayt, Threads and other social media platforms. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 6 | Social Media Part 2 - Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat | Introducing the capabilities of Social Media as an investigative resource & processing users and the still and moving images (videos) content they publish on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Flickr and other image sharing platforms | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 7 | Blogs, Forums & Online Marketplaces | Explains blogs, forums & similar platforms, and then demonstrates, live and on-line, how to deploy OSINT techniques to identify people using these resources & introducing internet marketplaces and the activity of users, with explanations and live on-line demonstrations of the resources and techniques to identify people and their activities. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 8 | Online Databases | Explains online databases that can be accessed by the practitioner with live on-line demonstrations of the processing techniques. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
The OSINT Refresher Course in 6 Modules
| Module | Description | Duration in Hours:Mins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | LOT | Assessment | Total | Detail | |
| 1 | Legislation and lawful processing & Synthetic Identities |
The GDPR and similar legislation in other jurisdictions and the implications for all OSINT processing. |
3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 2 | Processing Search Engines |
Google Dorks and other advanced search queries including other types of search-engines with their limitations & capabilities with a focus on safe processing. |
3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 3 | Processing Images, files, emails, phone numbers & IP addresses | Processing e-mails, phone numbers IP addresses, domain names and other digital assets to locate and identify people. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 4 | Social Media Platforms Part 1 | Processing users and the content they publish on Instagram, X (Twitter), Linkedin and other social media platforms. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 5 |
Social Media Platforms Part 2 |
Processing users and the still and moving images (videos) content they publish on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Flickr and other image sharing platforms. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 6 | Safe processing and the Positive Identification of a Subject | This module covers many of the techniques and resources covered in modules 2 - 5 that allow for a positive identification & an introduction to Data Breach. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
The OSINT Updates Course in 4 Modules
Not currently available as a DLC or Classroom course
| Module | Description | Duration in Hours:Mins | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | LOT | Assessment | Total | |
| 1 | Google Resources | GAIA ID , Epieos & Manual processing, Google Documents, Google Drive, Google Cloud Console, Command Line Capabilities. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 |
| 2 | Social Media Updates | Instagram new capabilities, Facebook new capabilities, X (Twitter) new capabilities, Linkedin new capabilites, Processing TikTok, Processing Truth.Social, Introduction to Command Line capabilities. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 |
| 3 | Geolocation Techniques & Resources | Technique to determine Date:Time of A Satellite Image, Technique to determine Date:Time of Street View & Other Images, Reverse Image Search with Geolocation focus, Processing with HuntIntel, Processing with Echosec. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 |
| 4 | Processing Data Breach & Leaks | Processing with Synapsint, Processing with Seon, Processing Data Breaches, Intelx, Data breaches on the Dark Web, Searching downloaded data-sets. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 |
The SOCMINT Course in 3 Modules
| Module | Description | Duration in Hours:Mins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | LOT | Assessment | Total | Detail | |
| 1 | Social Media Platforms Part 1 | Processing users and the content they publish on Instagram, X (Twitter), Linkedin and other social media platforms. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 2 |
Social Media Platforms Part 2 |
Processing users and the still and moving images (videos) content they publish on Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Flickr and other image sharing platforms. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 3 | Blogs, Forums & Online Marketplaces | Explains blogs, forums & similar platforms, and then demonstrates, live and on-line, how to deploy OSINT techniques to identify people using these resources & introducing internet marketplaces and the activity of users, with explanations and live on-line demonstrations of the resources and techniques to identify people and their activities. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
The Command Line Course in 2 Modules
Not available as a Classroom course
| Module | Description | Duration in Hours:Mins | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | LOT | Assessment | Total | Detail | |
| 1 | Preparation for Command Line Processing | Assessing the various Operating Systems and the different ways to deploy them including Virtual Machines, Linux Platforms, Browser accessible consoles, the Linux layer in the Windows OS and an Android Application. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |
| 2 |
Command Line Processing |
Processing with several OSINT Command Line Applications that might include, MOSINT, Social Analyzer, Phone Infoga, Snap Intel, ReconNG, Totatis (Instagram), The Harvester, Cardpwn, Xeuledoc & Poastal. | 3:30 | 0:30 | 4:00 | |