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OSINT training

Modular, intelligence-grade OSINT training for analysts, investigators, and operational teams. Programmes are tailored to your mandate and delivered by practitioners — not generic instructors.

Who it's for

Built for teams who turn open data into decisions.

  • Law enforcement
  • Intelligence analysts
  • Cybersecurity professionals
  • Journalists & researchers
  • Corporate security
  • Government agencies

Training tracks

Four programmes, fully modular.

Tracks can be combined, sequenced, or delivered as a single tailored curriculum. Every module is scoped to lawful, defensible tradecraft.

Custom OSINT training

A modular foundation programme tailored to your team's mandate, tooling, and operational context.

  • Introduction to OSINT and the intelligence cycle
  • Online attribution and operational security
  • Advanced search: images, usernames, emails
  • Social media intelligence and network analysis
  • Image and geolocation analysis
  • Area monitoring and risk assessment
  • Corporate intelligence and business records
  • Comprehensive investigations, deep & dark web

Disinformation investigation with OSINT

Practical skills for collecting, analysing, and countering disinformation, fake news, and coordinated manipulation.

  • Foundations of disinformation and influence operations
  • Tactics of state and non-state actors, bots and deepfakes
  • Social media analysis: reach, patterns, amplification
  • Open-source data collection and classification
  • Visualising disinformation networks and campaigns
  • Source verification and credibility assessment

Dark web investigation with OSINT

Methodical training on Tor, I2P, Freenet, and Lokinet for investigators working illicit markets, forums, and services.

  • Foundations of dark and deep net architectures
  • Lawful data collection and verification
  • Cryptocurrency tracing and transaction analysis
  • Investigating markets, forums, and illicit services

Generative AI for OSINT

How generative AI accelerates the intelligence cycle — and where its limits, risks, and ethical boundaries sit.

  • How generative AI supports the intelligence cycle
  • Foundations of modern AI systems
  • Practical techniques for AI-assisted collection
  • Limitations, ethical, and legal considerations

Delivery formats

Where and how your team learns.

Instructor-led

Delivered in-person or virtually by experienced practitioners. Scenarios and datasets calibrated to your operational environment.

Online self-paced

Structured modules accessible through our Online Academy, suitable for distributed teams and continuous skills development.

How a programme is built

From mandate to operational tradecraft.

  1. Step 1

    Scope & objectives

    We define learning outcomes, audience seniority, lawful boundaries, and operational context before any module is selected.

  2. Step 2

    Module selection

    Modules are combined and adapted into a coherent curriculum sized to your time, tooling, and mission profile.

  3. Step 3

    Delivery

    Hands-on sessions with realistic scenarios, datasets, and tradecraft drills — delivered in-person, virtually, or self-paced.

  4. Step 4

    Post-training support

    Reference materials, optional refreshers, and follow-on advisory to embed tradecraft into day-to-day operations.

Discuss a training requirement.

Share your team's mandate and operational context. We will propose a tailored OSINT curriculum and delivery plan.

Request a briefing