Beyond the basics…

The continuing growth of the Internet and the vast amount of information it carries offers both challenges and opportunities for researchers and investigators. Knowing how to search beyond the basic methods and find and use un-mined data can be an enormous asset to your business or personal professional CV. 

OS2 training courses offer a clear and informative way to learn about gathering and using intelligence for a number of purposes. Courses can benefit those already working in the intelligence industries as well as those wanting to add another dimension to their professional researcher skills. Our researcher courses are also useful for people who are not involved in intelligence or security work but who may like to learn new research skills to enhance their work. 

Combining expertise and experience from a range of backgrounds, OS2 offer courses across a number of levels. You can choose one of our standard courses or let us know your requirements and let us create a tailor made course for you.  Training can be carried out in either our fully equipped training room or alternatively we are able to come to you.

Open Source Researcher Course
The OS2 Researcher Course covers an extensive syllabus over two days. Topics covered include:

• The uses of open source research
• Ethics and human rights
• Exploiting the dark web
• Available sources
• Collection plans
• Secure research
• Use of Social Media
• Monitoring and alerts
• Search techniques
• Research software

Analyst Course
The OS2 Analyst Course is taught over a two day period. Topics include:

• Introduction to Intelligence Analysis
• Collation tools
• Managing your data.
• Link analysis
• Assessing and evaluating sources
• Reporting

Advanced Research & Analysis Course
A final two day course covering advanced research and analysis techniques. Topics include:

• Custom search engines, spiders and scrapers
• Advanced analysis
• Investigation considerations
• Using open source information as evidence
• Social network analysis

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Bespoke Courses
We understand that time is precious and the last thing you want to do is sit in a classroom and learn about topics that are not relevant to you job. Our bespoke courses are taught one to one at a time and place convenient to you.  As well as the subjects already listed in our standard courses, topics can include:

• Creating collection plans
• Report writing
• Briefing skills
• Vetting processes
• Specialist software training

Intelligence Software Courses

We teach a range of software courses including:

• i2 Analyst Notebook (basic and advanced courses)
• Paterva Maltego

Please contact us for further details.