Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

The amount of data being pushed to the Internet each minute is staggering. Hundreds of hours of video, hundreds of thousands of images and more text than can be indexed with a search engine.

Couple that massive amount of data with websites that restrict access, those on unindexed servers and data in the dark web, and you will quickly understand that gaining a strong foundation in how to search, collect and analyse data from Internet-facing platforms no matter where they are located is important. This is what SEC487 does. It starts with how to collect and analyse data and quickly moves into teaching techniques to gain access to and then to harvest content from websites.

It touches on a broad array of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) topics from setting up an OSINT analysis platform to accessing the dark web. It is an entry-level course that is far from basic and will empower students to seek, find and use data from sources around the world. If you are relying on search engine indexes to find and gather data, its a guarantee that you are missing information.

SEC487 is a foundational course in open-source intelligence (OSINT) gathering that teaches students how to find, collect, and analyse data from the Internet. Far from being a beginner class, this course teaches students the OSINT groundwork to be successful in finding and using online information, reinforced with over 25 hands-on exercises.