OSINT Foundations Course

Dreaming of an investigative job? This course is one stop on your way to it!

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the role and scope of OSINT in compliance, investigations, and cybersecurity

• Apply OSINT methods to real-world AFC and compliance scenarios

• Legally and ethically collect, verify, and use open-source intelligence

• Avoid common errors, privacy violations, and data misinterpretation

• Design a simple, repeatable OSINT workflow tailored to their organization

• Define OSINT and distinguish it from other intelligence types

• Navigate and ethically access open data sources

• Use tools and techniques to gather intelligence on individuals, companies, and online entities

• Produce defensible intelligence reports for decision-makers in a context-based report writing style

• Prepare for a job where investigation skills are essentials