OSINT --- Collection and Analysis; and Structured Analytic Techniques

Although open source information have always been accessible to law enforcement officers, the digitalization and ubiquitous presence of open source information in the cyberspace domain that took place at the beginning of the XXI Century presents new opportunities and challenges for collection of open source information for law enforcement and homeland security. Moreover, in 2005, the Intelligence Community re-discovered a series of ???alternative analysis techniques??? that had been successfully used in the 1980s. Now, these analytic techniques are known as Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis.\ud \ud This course examines the history of open source information collection, techniques and ethical issues for collection of publicly available information, validation of sources, and the Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis applied to the collected data in order to produce an intelligence report that will satisfied the requirements for information that arise within the law enforcement and homeland security environments. \ud \ud The principal objectives of this course are to develop a basic understanding of and capacity to utilize open source information (publicly available) when satisfying a request for information to produce an open source information intelligence (OSINT) report; to understand the tools and methods used by OSINT analyst; to understand ethics and laws when collecting publicly available information; and to learn structured analytic techniques to better identify indications and warnings