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April 2020
Many social networks and online information sources either allow the subjects of searches to see who has been searching them or provide some obvious clues as to who is looking at their information. This intermediate to advanced class provides tools for how to work undercover online, while adhering to ethical standards and laws.
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Hg shares twenty years of global experience uncovering information on foreign and domestic business interests, small private companies, and backgrounding individuals and products. This advanced seminar helps investigators refine their skills by unlocking Google's full search potential to locate difficult information on companies, their assets, and the people that run them. At its completion, analysts will be able to track down financial sources, legal fillings, and reputational issues from databases, Web sites, and Internet resources.
Find out moreThis complimentary class for active LEO's in 2020 is a perfect time to refine the core skills you’ve been using from the start of your expert practice, while updating your skills portfolio to include new and trending open source techniques and resources. In this ½ day training, Hg’s OSINT investigators will introduce participants to the three layers of the Internet: Surface, Deep, and Dark. You will learn how to navigate each layer with an investigative eye through the lens of best practices.
Find out moreAs investigators, we are governed by foreign and domestic ethics standards and laws. Yet, everyday an investigator, attorney, or accountant appears in the news for crossing the line using the Internet to research, contact, or connect with their target. They find themselves using technology workarounds, finding holes in the system, or outright hacking to gain information.
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Dark Web has the star quality and luster of a Hollywood movie, but in reality, it’s a den of inequity operated by the technically sophisticated. The more “google’ized” we’ve become as investigators and researchers, the less we understand what’s going on behind the scenes and how to operate in this nefarious world.
Find out moreHg will be presenting educational sessions on Google searches, public records and open sources, advanced social media investigations, background checks online, and online image tracking and IP tracing for the largest pharmacy health care provider in the U.S.
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Investigators are often contacted by legal teams to determine whether a professional is qualified to serve as an expert witness. This intermediate to advanced hands-on webinar will identify and explore the most useful search engines, databases, and social media platforms to help cyber investigators build or debunk expert witnesses for their clients.
Find out moreJune 2020
Before getting emotionally, financially, or personally involved, it is a good time to check for any fraudulent or criminal past. This intermediate to advanced hands-on webinar will help OSINT investigators utilize databases, free resources, and techniques for uncovering a person’s history to put your client’s mind at ease.
Find out moreAs an investigator, social media platforms and search engines are important tools for tracking down facts and following leads. This class expands your general knowledge of social media platforms and search engines, allowing you to create thorough reports for your clients.
Find out more2020 is a perfect time to refine the core skills you’ve been using from the start of your expert practice, while updating your skills portfolio to include new and trending open source techniques and resources. In this pre-conference training, Hg’s OSINT investigators will introduce participants to the three layers of the Internet: Surface, Deep, and Dark. You will learn how to navigate each layer with an investigative eye through the lens of best practices.
Find out moreJuly 2020
In OSINT investigations, six months can be an eternity. New apps, social media platforms, and search techniques crawl across the web at rapid speed. Are you equipped to keep up in 2020? In Hg’s mid-year hitlist, we provide OSINT investigators with the best, the worst, and the mediocre online internet tools and techniques for conducting cyber investigations. This hands-on, intermediate to advanced webinar explores new search engine resources and how to properly conduct advanced Internet and social media searches.
Find out moreAugust 2020
Operating in a constantly changing landscape keeps investigators on their toes, particularly when it comes to the Dark Web—where the perversity and depravity of humankind can lurk behind every second click. This hands-on, intermediate to advanced webinar provides the OSINT investigator with the right knowledge and skills to protect people, places, and products when entering the nefarious Dark Web.
Find out moreSeptember 2020
Social media investigations help investigators locate key information for their cases, including discovering assets, finding motivation behind criminal activity and background data to complete the picture of their target. In this class, we will expand on the basics of social media investigations and learn the tools used outside of North America. Together we will go beyond Facebook to learn what networks are popular in Europe, Asia, South America and other parts of the world, to equip the examiner for deeper global investigations.
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International background checks and due diligence are vital for business success and management. In this hands-on, intermediate to advanced webinar, we will review available databases and open sources for a variety of countries to conduct international due diligence and background checks.
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Hundreds of investigators gather annually at Hg's OSMOSIS conference to gain insights into Open Source Intelligence and receive training from the most recognized experts within the cyber security industry.
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Often online investigations require more than a surface exploration of social media accounts. This hands-on, intermediate to advanced webinar introduces updated protocols to spotlight the brightest and best in social media monitoring for protective intelligence.
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Ripped from our own case notes and Industry Undercover tips over the last 11 months, Hg’s expert investigators have compiled their Best of 2020 List of Internet Investigation Resources. In this hands-on, intermediate to advanced webinar, we delve into which OSINT resources and techniques have advanced, which have dissolved, which have 2021 relevance, and what trends we are predicting.
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