Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

In today’s digital landscape, Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a crucial skill for cybersecurity professionals, investigators, and researchers. OSINT involves gathering publicly available information from various online sources to analyze threats, verify identities, and uncover hidden data. However, with the power of OSINT comes the responsibility to follow ethical guidelines and maintain operational security (OPSEC) to protect both investigators and targets from unintended risks. This course delves into the essential principles of OSINT while emphasizing privacy techniques to ensure safe and responsible intelligence gathering.

This course begins with an introduction to the Open-Source Intelligence Cycle, OPSEC, and ethical considerations. Learners will then set up a secure OSINT virtual environment, including configuring virtual machines, customizing Ubuntu, and optimizing web browsers. The course explores advanced search engine techniques, such as Google dorking, IoT search engines, and Dark Web research. Students will gain hands-on experience with powerful Linux OSINT tools, including Recon-ng, Spiderfoot, Sherlock, theHarvester, Sublist3r, and dnstwist. Finally, the course covers OSINT summarization, reporting methodologies, and best practices for documenting findings effectively.

By the end of this course, learners will have mastered OSINT techniques, configured a secure research environment, and utilized advanced tools to gather intelligence while maintaining privacy and ethical standards.

What You Will Learn

  • Establish a clear understanding of what is Open Source Intelligence and what it is not based on the previous basic OSINT course.
  • Learn to find information you would expect to be confidential
  • Learn how to create a safe and privacy-aware environment (lab) for conducting your OSINT investigations by creating custom operating systems to always have a clean investigation environment.
  • Conduct advanced search queries across dozens of resources simultaneously
  • Learn how to use various tools used to track individuals and organizations internationally, using public record databases and effective people searching tools.
  • Learn to protect your identity while searching and maneuver covertly.
  • Learn to move forward in your Cyber Security studies and to improve your career.

Program Curriculum

  • Open-Source Intelligence Cycle
  • OPSEC and Ethics
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Virtual Machine Preparation and Installation
  • Customizing the Operating System (Ubuntu)
  • Web Browser(s)
  • Virtual Machine Maintenance
  • Chapter 2 Lab
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Advanced Google Searching
  • Internet of Things Search Engines
  • Deep Web/Dark Web Research
  • Chapter 3 Lab
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Recon-ng
  • Spiderfoot
  • Sherlock
  • theHarvester
  • Sublist3r
  • dnstwist
  • Chapter 4 Lab
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Reporting
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Final Thoughts and Recommendations
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Instructor

Tino Sokic

Tino Sokic is a Cyber Security Professional with an emphasis on users’ privacy who has been in the IT field for over ten years. The combination of law school and IT certifications with a Systems Engineer background has produced a need to raise awareness of the technologies that surround people’s lives. As a Cyber Security Awareness and an Open Source Intelligence trainer, Tino has the ability to provide easy-to-follow curriculums consisting of hands-on examples and real-life stories. His focus is on the human side of technology. Tino is a co-founder of the Croatian regional biggest website that provides free tutorials and how to’s about technology and attends various Cyber Security conferences across Europe as a Guest Speaker. Also, he is a column writer for one of the first Croatian IT magazines and a regular guest on Cyber Security questions on the National TV.

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