Course Description:
During this course, students will explore all the technical components associated with hardware, software, social media platforms, and open-source tools. This course has an emphasis on objective, risk, threat, and requirements. As collectors navigate through legalities, internet, web, digital footprint, signature management, harvesting, and cleaning data. Students will gain a firm understanding of what is needed to plan and efficiently collect data to fulfill requirements.
Course Syllabus: Open-Source Collection Technician.pdf
Copy of Course Introduction
Pre-Course Questionnaire
Course Syllabus
Course Learning Objectives
Introduction to OSCT
0.1 - Historical Beginnings of OSINT
0.2 - The Categories of OSINT
0.3 - The EAG OSINT Methodology
0.4 - EAG Designed OSINT Career Paths
1.1 - Intelligence Cycle
1.2 - Intelligence Requirements, Assets, and Collection Management
1.3 - OSINT Overlap with the Intelligence Disciplines
1.4 - Media Types for OSINT
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2.1 - Privacy, Legalities, Ethics, and Data
2.2 - The Internet and The Web
2.3 - Internet Components
2.4 - Web Components
2.5 - Managing Attributions and Signature Management
2.6 - Choosing Your Platform for a Virtual Machine
2.7 - Adding Tools and Resources to the Virtual Machine
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3.1 - Discovering Data
3.2 - GitHub Repositories
3.3 - APIs Behind Social Media Tools
3.4 - API Usages
3.5 - Batch Scripting
3.5.1 - Python Coding Camp Part 1
3.5.2 - Python Coding Camp Part 2
3.6 - Developing Data
3.7 - Data Use Cases
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