Operationalise OSINT

Course Abstract

This is a comprehensive course to level up on cybersecurity skills by focusing on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). Covers essential principles, advanced techniques, and ethical considerations for gathering intelligence from publicly available information in support of investigation. Throughout this course, you will learn to collect information effectively, detect fake images, analyze social media data, reverse images search and identify deceptive online identities.

This is about finding meaningful information that is applicable to the intelligence question and being able to provide meaningful intelligence about the data collected.

You might use open-source information to do a credibility check before hiring someone for a job and to find out more about the person selling you something on Facebook marketplace.

Course Outline

• What is and how to OSINT? Gathering, Searching and Analyzing.
  1. Understand What OSINT Is.
  2. The Goals of OSINT.
  3. How to OSINT?
     • The OSINT Frameworks.
     • Harvesting Web Data.
     • User Data/Name/Images and Reverse Images Searching.
       • User Data: Addresses, Phone Numbers, and Email Addresses.
       • User Data: Names, Images, Avatars, and Reverse Image Searches.
       • Additional Public Data.
• Social media, Geolocation, Imagery OSINT. Networks, Government, and Business OSINT (With hand-on exercise).
  1. OSINT Search Engines.
  2. Social Media.
     • Facebook OSINT.
     • Instagram OSINT.
     • LinkedIn OSINT.
     • X (Formerly known as Twitter) OSINT.
  3. Geolocation.
  4. Imagery, Metadata, and Maps.
  5. Networks OSINT.
     • Remote Network Recon.
     • Finding Online Devices.
     • Government OSINT.
     • Companies OSINT.