Name & Direct Link: MASA – Certified All Source Analyst

Platform: Mossé Cyber Security Institute

Community: They have a Discord Server

Training & Certification Pricing: $995

Exam Type: Practical Hands-On

Topics:

• Lab Setup
• Fundamentals of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• Search Engines
• Social Media
• Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
• Documents
• Data Breaches
• Multimedia
• Deep Web
• Geolocation
• Documentation for OSINT
• Fundamentals of Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI)
• Situational Awareness
• Open-Source Intelligence for CTI
• Monitoring for New Threats
• Harnessing Threat Feeds
• Cyber Threat Intelligence Operations
• Internal Logs Sources
• Hypothesis Creation
• Supporting Red Teams and Threat Hunting Teams
• Reporting for CTI
• Policies, Procedures and Methodologies

Name & Direct Link: MTIA – Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst

Platform: Mossé Cyber Security Institute

Community: They have a Discord Server

Training & Exam Pricing: $450 includes practical exercises and the certification.

Topics:

• Lab Setup
• Fundamentals
• Open-Source Intelligence
• Internal Logs Sources
• Binary Classification
• File and Executable Forensics
• Memory Forensics
• Network Forensics
• Windows Forensics
• Threat Hunting with YARA
• Threat Hunting with Pandas
• Threat Hunting with Velociraptor
• Threat Hunting with GRR Rapid Response
• Situational Awareness
• Pivot Analysis
• Harnessing Threat Feeds
• Monitor New Threats and Vulnerabilities
• Security Automation
• Cyber Threat Mapping
• Hypothesis Creation
• Supporting Red Teams and Threat Hunting Teams
• Reporting
• Policies, Procedures, and Methodologies
• Cyber Counterintelligence

Additional Information: This isn’t a typical approach to a certification. You complete 100% practical exercises that you research how to do on your own as you go, so part of it is research methods and critical-thinking skills. As you go through the exercises, you go from Novice DFIR Practitioner up to Certified Expert DFIR Practitioner. There is no time limit to complete it.

Exam Type: Practical Hands-On

Name & Direct Link: ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence Certification

Platform: MAD20

Cost: $47.99/month – $499/year

Proof of Completion: Badge for each topic and certification after completing all of the topics.

Community/Forum: There is a MAD20 Learners Group for subscribers

Topics:

• ATT&CK Fundamentals
• ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence from Raw Data
• ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence from Narrative Reporting
• ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence Storage and Analysis
• ATT&CK Cyber Threat Intelligence Defense Recommendations

Name & Affiliate Link*: Practical OSINT Research Professional (PORP)

Platform: TCM Security

Price: $249 (includes training and exam voucher that doesn’t expire)

Student Discount: Students, Veterans, Teachers and First Responders can get a 20% discount.

Exam Type: Practical Hands-On

Topics:

• Effective Notekeeping
• Creating Sock Puppet Accounts
• Basic and Advanced Search Engine OSINT
• Image OSINT
• Email Address, Phone Number, and Breached Data OSINT
• People OSINT
• Username and Social Media OSINT
• Wireless Network OSINT
• OSINT with Tools
• Automating OSINT
• Report Writing

*DFIR Diva is an affiliate of TCM Security and receives a small percentage of sales made through affiliate links that go toward keeping the site running.

Name & Direct Link: CSI Linux OSINT Certifications

Platform: Echothis Labs

Community/Forum: There is a CSI Linux Discord Server

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Certifications and Topics:

Name: CSI Linux Certified OSINT Analyst (CSIL-COA)

Cost: $385

Topics: What is OSINT, Base Process of Investigations, Preserving Online Evidence, Phone Numbers, IP Addresses, Proxies, VPNs, DNS, Domains, Subdomains, Anonymity, Online Investigation Samples, Misinformation, Disinformation, Deception, Setting up an Online Web Persona – Sock Puppet, Using Your Persona to Investigate, Translation Options, Website Collection, 3rd Party Commercial Apps, OSINT Frameworks (Tools), Tracking Changes and Getting Alerts, Public Records Searches, Geolocation, Tracking Transportation, Using Images in Investigations, Social Media Sites, Video Evidence Collection, Cryptocurrency, AI Challenges, Writing the Report, Case Studies, Practicing OSINT and Resources.

Name: CSI Linux Certified Social Media Investigator (CSIL-CSMI)

Cost: $385

Topics: Anonymity, Base Process of Investigations, Preserving Online Evidence, Terms of Service Challenges, SOCMINT Investigations, Username Search, Setting up an Online Web Persona – Sock Puppet, Using your Persona to Investigate, 3rd Party Commercial Apps, Online Investigations with Images, Video Evidence Collection, YouTube, TikTok, Google, Facebook, Telegram, Twitter, Instagram, Other Social Media Sites, LinkedIn, Dating Sites, Craigslist Scams, 4Chan and Image Boards, Reddit, Writing the Report

Name: CSI Linux Certified Dark Web Investigator (CSIL-CDWI)

Cost: $385

Topics: What is the Darknet/Dark Web, Anonymity, Preserving Online Evidence, Darknet / Dark Web Evidence, Writing the Report, Connecting to Tor, Navigating the Dark Web (Tor), Setting up a Dark Web Persona, AI – Machine Learning, Dark Web Investigation Subjects, Crypto Currency, Video Evidence, Dark Markets, Hunch.ly, De-Anonymizing Tor, Other Onion Routing Dark Nets, Case Studies

Name & Direct Link: OSIP – Open Source Intelligence Professional Training + Certification

Platform: IntelTechniques

Price: $949

Topics: Hunchly, Capture & Preservation, Search Sites & Tools, Names, Email, Usernames, Phone Numbers, Social Media Investigations, Google Drive, Photos & Video, Documents, Maps, Vehicles, Corporations, Groups, Events, Domains, IPs, VMs, Darknet, Command Line & Scripts, Breaches & Leaks, Virtual Machines, Criminal Markets, Security & Privacy

Exam Type: Practical Hands-On

Name & Direct Link: MOIS – Certified OSINT Expert

Platform: Mossé Cyber Security Institute

Training & Exam Pricing: $595 includes the practical exercises and certification.

Community: They have a Discord Server

Topics: Creating an Anonymous Presence to be Used to Conduct Online Investigative Research, Collect Data From IP Addresses, Domain Names, Email Addresses, Documents, Search Engines, Code Repositories, Data Breaches, Social Media Platforms and more, Write Tools in Python to Interact With APIs and Automate the OSINT Data Collection Process, Develop Professionial Procedures and Methodologies.

Additional Information: This isn’t a typical approach to a certification. You complete 100% practical exercises that you research how to do on your own as you go, so part of it is research methods and critical-thinking skills. As you go through the exercises, you go from MCSI OSINT Learner up to MCSI Certified Expert OSINT Practitioner. There is no time limit to complete it.

Exam Type: Practical Hands-On