Name & Direct Link: Threat/Warning Analyst (OSINT and Dark Web Pathway) 

Platform: CyberSkills2Work/Dakota State University

Cost: Free for Eligible Students.

Application Link: https://cyberskills2work.org/join

Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Must be a veteran, transitioning service member, first responder, military spouse, or government personnel.
• Must have at least a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent. School transcripts of the highest level of education completed are required.
• Must have some IT or cybersecurity experience.

Courses Included:

• OSINT Foundations
• OSINT Optimized
• OSINT Search Engine Researcher
• OSINT Social Media Researcher
• OSINT Technical Researcher
• OSINT Public Records Researcher
• OSINT Analyst
• OSINT Presenter
• OSINT Special Investigator – Capstone

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: Live OSINT Training Courses

Platform: Unchartered

Cost: $225 – $800

Courses Include:

• OSINT Fundamentals
• Advanced OPSEC
• Report Writing Workshop
• Investigating the Dark Web
• Crypto Essentials
• Unmasking Fraud
• OSINT Risk Intelligence
• Global Intelligence Discovery: Uncovering Insights from Nation-States

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: Python for OSINT

Platform: GitHub

Cost: Free

Hands-On: Yes

Good for Beginners: Yes

Topics: Basic Syntax, Install and Run Python Command Line Tools, Reading and Writing Files, Handling HTTP Requests and Working with APIs, JSON, CSV, Databases, Automate the Collection of Search Results, Scraping, Regular Expressions, Proxies, Functions for Working with Lists, Working with the File System, Domain Information Gathering, List Mapping and Functions for Work with Strings, Generating Documents, Generating Charts and Maps, Wayback Machine and Time/Date Functions, Web Apps Creation, Tools to Help You Work with Code

Name & Direct Link: Linux for OSINT

Platform: GitHub

Cost: Free

Hands-On: Yes

Good for Beginners: Yes

Topics: Working with Files and Directories, Bash Script Syntax, Install and Run Utilities, Batch File Processing, Downloading Files and Working with APIs, Curl, Grep, Sed, Awk, Vim Text Editor, Screen and Crone, Text Analyzing and Editing Utilities, Video, Audio, Images, PDF, MS Office Files, JSON, XML, CSV, Scraping, Web Search Automation Tools, File Sharing Sites, Torrents, FTP, Domain Investigation, Git and GitHub, Tools to Make Linux Easier to Use

Name & Direct Link: Open-Source Intelligence

Platform: Basel Institute

Cost: Free

Hands-On: There are interactive slides within the course.

Proof of Completion: Certificate

Good for Beginners: Yes

Topics: Preparing the Environment, Database and Web Searches, DNS Records, Archived and Cached Pages, Social Media, Image Information, Online Communities, Dark Web, Virtual Currencies, Reporting

OSINT CTFs and Challenges are located under the DFIR, OSINT & Blue Team CTFs and Challenges section of this site.

Name & Direct Link: CSI Linux Certified Investigator (CSIL-CI)

Platform: Ecothis Labs

Cost: Free

Exam Type: Multiple Choice

Community/Forum: There is a CSI Linux Discord Server

Description: This training and certification goes over the tools and functionality of the CSI Linux distro

Topics:

Downloading & Installing CSI Linux, Setting up CSI Linux, Troubleshooting, System Settings, The Case Management System, Report Template, Anonymity, Connecting to Tor, Website Collection, Online Video Collection, 3rd Party Commercial Apps for Online Investigations, Communication Tools, Geolocation, Computer Forensics, Data Recovery, Incident Response, Memory Forensics, Malware Analysis, Encryption and Data Hiding, SIGINT, SDR, Wireless, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting

• Operational Security (OPSEC)
• Online Harassment
• Sock Puppet Accounts
• Prepare Your Investigation Workstation
• Live System Options
• Virtual Machines
• Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
• The Intelligence Cycle
• Basics of Information Gathering
• Google, Bing, and Yandex
• Website Investigations
• Username Search Essentials & Tools
• Website Content Analysis
• Website Fingerprinting
• Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT)
• Fundamental SOCMINT Techniques
• Account Profile; Content Analysis Techniques
• Identifying Relationships & Connecting Accounts
• Human Intelligence (HUMINT)
• Stages of HUMINT Operation & HUMINT Techniques
• Covert Interviewing & Ethics