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Course Overview

“Generating relevant, timely and actionable intelligence, assessing and managing risk, maximizing opportunities, assuring compliance, and managing reputation this course will train you to find, manage, and use online information more effectively.”

Why attend the Course?

• While general Internet research may appear simple, the World Wide Web can be very difficult to navigate when searching for timely, accurate and actionable intelligence.
• Most online researchers are unaware of how complex the Internet is, how much information they are missing and the risks they may be taking that could compromise their safety, integrity or privacy.
• Using a highly interactive and refreshing delivery style, this comprehensive workshop is aimed at investigative practitioners and knowledge workers at all levels.
• This is your chance to learn some of the hidden secrets that can make the difference between being just a web surfer, or an effective online researcher.

Course Benefits

• Become significantly more efficient at conducting online research and getting the most from “Surface” and “Deep” websites as well as from Social Networking and other Web 2.0 portals.
• Understand how to leverage images, video and other multimedia to advance your intelligence goals.
• Learn how to effectively use a variety of freely available tools to archive, compile and properly analyse Internet sourced information.
• Develop the skills and awareness to use the Web safely when conducting sensitive investigative research. A number of tools that are used by many websites to comprehensively examine traffic to that site will be examined and demonstrated, along with tools that can be used to protect privacy online and maintain operational integrity.
• Attendees receive a comprehensive collection of training materials

Did You Know?

• The Internet currently has around 1,733 million users and is accessed by 25.6% of the global population.
• Internet users view 7.2 billion pages a day on Google alone and it accounts for 65% of all Internet searches. But 95% of ‘hidden’ Deep Web information is publicly available and not subject to fees or subscriptions.
• Most people enter only two keywords into a single search engine and then never look past the top 10 results.
• When searching online, investigators do not find most of the relevant information they could use because they don’t know how to find it.
• Most investigators “don’t know what they don’t know”  about online research and privacy.