Fundamentals of Cyber Investigations & Human Intelligence

Unlock the secrets of effective digital investigations with our proven and acclaimed Fundamentals of Cyber Investigation and Human Intelligence course. This course has delivered exceptional value to practitioners around the world through in-house training programs, open classes, and most recently at the prestigious BlackHat Asia and BlackHat Europe cybersecurity conferences in Singapore and London. Gain practical knowledge and acquire skills that will help gather in-depth information on a subject, master target profiling, and learn valuable social engineering and information elicitation techniques.

With this unique course, you will learn to gather in-depth information about your target from publicly available resources. You will also learn to profile a target and then utilize this information to engage with them online, and elicit information that will facilitate your investigation. We will be teaching these skills through the following intelligence disciplines:

  • Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
  • Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)
  • Human Intelligence (HUMINT)

Curriculum

    1. Intro

    2. Welcome

    3. Pre-training Survey

    1. How private is your personal information?

    2. OPSEC Workflow

    3. Online Harassment

    4. Quiz: Online Harassment

    5. Prepare Your Investigation Workstation

    6. Live System Options

    7. Virtual Machines

    8. Sock Puppet Accounts

    9. Quiz: OPSEC

    1. Introduction to OSINT

    2. The Intelligence Cycle

    3. OSINT Guiding Principles & Use Cases

    4. Basics of Information Gathering

    5. Google

    6. Bing & Yandex

    7. Exercise: Hunt for Secrets

    8. Email Investigations

    9. Username Search Essentials & Tools

    10. Website Investigations

    11. CentralOps.net

    12. ViewDNS.info

    13. Identify the technologies behind any website

    14. Technology Lookup with BuiltWith

    15. urlscan.io - The sandbox for the web

    16. Website Content Analysis

    17. Website Fingerprinting

    18. Quiz: OSINT

    1. Introduction to SOCMINT

    2. Fundamental SOCMINT Techniques

    3. Account Profile; Content Analysis Techniques

    4. Identifying Relationships & Connecting Accounts

    5. Cold Reading: Observations VS Inferences

    6. From SOCMINT to HUMINT

    7. Active Sock Puppet Accounts

    8. Quiz: SOCMINT

    1. "Targeted"

    2. Stages of a HUMINT Operation & HUMINT Techniques

    3. Case Study

    4. Covert Interviewing & Ethics

    5. Case Study: Minors Exploitation

    6. Quiz: HUMINT

    1. Closing Remarks

    2. Outro

    3. Post-training Survey

About this course

  • €349,00
  • 47 Lektionen

Your Instructors

Christina Lekati

Christina is a psychologist and a social engineer working in cyber security. She participates in a variety of projects, where she practices or trains teams on social engineering for defensive or offensive security.

Samuel Lolagar

Dozent

Samuel Lolagar is a cybersecurity expert and former investigator, known for his hands-on OSINT and social engineering trainings. As a co-founder of OSINT Studio and Germany’s GOSINTCon conference, he educates teams on open source intelligence and modern cyber investigation techniques

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