Class Description: Bring your laptops and come learn real OSINT techniques from the OSINT experts that run The OSINT Curious Project (https://osintcurio.us).

This 1 day course will start off with a brief section on "the basics" of how to protect yourself and your system while OSINTing and how to set up your own OSINT process. Next, we will dive into how leveraging advanced search engine operators can help you in your OSINT work. After that, we will spend a considerable amount of the session performing OSINT on a variety of social media platforms.

If you've been to our web site, watched our videos, or heard our podcasts, you know that we don't just point you towards a web form that performs some "OSINT Magic". You will learn how things work on the internet and then learn how to apply those to your investigations through expert lectures and hands on exercises.

Syllabus

The OSINT Curious Project Layer 8 Training Overview:

- OSINT Basics

• How do we actually "do osint" work?
• Documentation - Getting the most out of Hunchly and MindMaps
• VPNs - Why we use them

- Using Advanced Search Engine Queries - Leveraging search engines like DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and Google

- Reverse Image Searching - Looking up images in search engines

- User Name Searching - Finding where your target has accounts

- Social Media

• Sock puppets - Tips to be successful
• Facebook - How to perform your own Facebook Searches
• Instagram - Scraping data
• Twitter - Analyzing Tweets

- Imagery and Mapping Applications

- Recon Frameworks - Recon-ng and Spiderfoot

- Open forum for student topics

NOTES:

• Light breakfast and lunch are included.
• Tickets for the Layer8 Conference are NOT included with training. Purchase conference ticket separately here.
• Eventbrite fees are additional and will be calculated at checkout.

Audience: Intermediate-level technical security professionals looking to become proficient with OSINT techniques.

Requirements: Students will be required to provide their own laptop that can run a virtual machine. VMWare or VirtualBox may be used for some examples. Students should be familiar with how to use a virtual machine and copying files in and out of VMs.

Trainer Info: Micah "WebBreacher" Hoffman is the Principle Consultant at Spotlight Infosec, the SEC487 OSINT SANS course author and lead instructor, and currently, the President of The OSINT Curious Project.

Kirby Plessas is founder and CEO of Plessas Experts Network, Inc. Before devoting her work full time to PEN, Kirby established herself as one of the foremost tradecraft experts in OSINT through a successful careers both as a member of the U.S. Military and as a contractor prior to founding PEN in 2008. She currently serves as the Vice President of The OSINT Curious Project.

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