OSINT training

OSINT Training and briefings

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Agenda

We are humbled and proud to be invited to do an evening programme of several hours on OSINT in Utrecht early January. The audience will be from a information security, cyber security background, about 150 in total.

We will also have serious plans to support NATO with providing training programmes in Baghdad Iraq, for about two full weeks. The dates are set for something like February March 2024.

Other travel and training will be deliverd in Amman Jordan (again) and Tunesia somewhere early 2024.

Current training programmes

Here is the plan for the most popular OSINT training programme in our portfolio for 2024.

We have four OSINT Pathfinders planned for a total of 60 participants, 15 per programme. Each programme is three full days of hard work with full documentation provided, the spectacular IceBreaker Sessions on the evening of the first day, and lots of background material for each participant.

Read the training page with explanations and registration form if you are interested.

OSINT Pathfinder XVLIII
12-14 March 2024The HagueThe Netherlands
OSINT Pathfinder XLIX
11-13 June 2024The HagueThe Netherlands
OSINT Pathfinder L
17-19 September 2024The HagueThe Netherlands
OSINT Pathfinder LI
10-12 December 2024The HagueThe Netherlands

Future programmes

For 2024, we are working on offering online workshops and refreshers. The workshops will be devoted to current issues for practitioner OSINTians such as anonymous searching, identifying fake news, fact checking procedures etc.

The refreshers are aimed at OSINT Pathfinder abiturients who are in need of an update on certain aspects of the OSINT intelligence cycle.

Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google

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Google is warning users not to fully trust Bard for reliability. The urgent advice is to reference and validate the answers Bard gives with the Google search engine. Users have found that Bard may give wrong answers or even totally makes up the answers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66303877

Google what our chatbot tells you… says Google

Tom Singleton, BBC news,28 jul 2023

Google says people should use its search engine to check whether information provided by its chatbot, Bard, is actually accurate.

Some have suggested chatbots like Bard and ChatGPT could “kill” traditional search, which is dominated by Google.

But users have found the information they provide can be wrong or even entirely made up.

Google’s UK boss Debbie Weinstein said Bard was “not really the place that you go to search for specific information”.

Speaking to the BBC’s Today programme, she said Bard should be considered an “experiment” best suited for “collaboration around problem solving” and “creating new ideas”.

“We’re encouraging people to actually use Google as the search engine to actually reference information they found,” she said.