OSINT Training: How to Investigate Suspects
Learn how open-source intelligence can be used to investigate suspects by connecting digital footprints, online activity, and real-world identity through a live investigative workflow.
Description
Join us for a live OSINT training session on how to investigate suspects using structured, lawful, and repeatable open-source methods.
This session will walk through the practical steps investigators use to move from an initial lead, such as an email address, phone number, username, name, image, or online account, to a broader intelligence picture of a suspect’s identity, activity, associations, and digital footprint.
Using a hands-on investigative workflow, we will demonstrate how to search and cross-reference open sources including social media profiles, public records, domain records, company filings, breach data, archived content, and other publicly available information to build a clear and evidenced profile.
The session will also cover investigative discipline: validating sources, avoiding assumption-led research, separating coincidence from meaningful pattern, preserving evidence, and documenting findings in a way that can support law enforcement, intelligence, compliance, journalism, or security investigations.
Whether you work in policing, intelligence, corporate investigations, compliance, safeguarding, investigative journalism, or security research, this training will give you a practical framework for conducting suspect-focused OSINT investigations with confidence.