Open-Source Intelligence

Acquiring open source intelligence (OSINT) requires more than just an ability to use the Internet. Special databases and off-line sources are among the many rich veins of intelligence which go unknown and untapped by law enforcement, business researchers, security personnel, terrorism, gang and financial researchers and intelligence analysts.

This course provides a five step process developed over ten years and augmented by tips, hints, checklists, examples and case studies that will lead the student to information once considered unavailable and unreachable.

Finding online databases, deep and hidden web sites that return key intelligence while remaining within the law and privacy consideration is a skill needed for the law enforcement, intelligence or business intelligence professional.

Our instructor has supported global investigations in support to anti-terrorism, threatening organizations, financial and money flow monitoring and discovery, organized crime, gang movements and plans, and business intelligence for major corporations.

What is the value I will receive from this instruction?

In its most fundamental form, what we do on this course is to train the attendees to find more data in less time when online, and then to make better sense of it. As we say, we enable our clients to harness the power of the Internet to allow them to get the information they need when they need it. We give our clients bang for the buck in that they will now take less time, to find more, online.

We live in an information based society in which information is the commodity of greatest value - finding the right information and understanding how to interpret it is essential in business whether it is competitive intelligence, enhanced due diligence, brand protection, reputation management, employee background screening or any other of the myriad of information focused business functions.

We also teach attendees how to do this safely (without leaving their organization's "footprints" all over the web sites they are visiting) - this being said, we discuss counter-intelligence opportunities on the web.

Attendees will not only learn a new range of skill sets to make them more efficient online, they will also develop a new mindset regarding online searching that will carry them through the technological revolution that will continue in cyberspace for many years to come.

In our experience, most clients "don't know what they don't know" about online searching and miss far more relevant information online than they find.

This course is available for On-Site Training.