Resecurity® Military OSINT & Intelligence Tradecraft Professional (RCMOIT)
Develop disciplined open-source intelligence skills for defence, security and investigative work.
About this course
Develop disciplined open-source intelligence skills for defence, security and investigative work. Across four and a half days you will turn mission questions into requirements, plan collection, research the open web safely and grade every source for reliability.
Practical exercises cover imagery, metadata and geospatial analysis, entity correlation and structured analytic techniques. A final reporting exercise brings it together in a clear, defensible assessment, preparing you for the RCMOIT credential.
What you'll learn
- Place OSINT within the intelligence cycle and turn mission questions into requirements.
- Build structured collection plans for open-source research.
- Research systematically across the open web, social media and public records.
- Judge source reliability and information credibility consistently.
- Apply online research safety and operational security.
- Analyse imagery, metadata and geospatial information to verify claims.
- Link people, organisations, events and infrastructure using structured analytic techniques.
- Write clear, defensible intelligence assessments and briefings.
Curriculum
- What OSINT is and is not
- The intelligence cycle
- Legal and ethical boundaries
- OSINT in defence and security work
- From mission question to requirement
- Indicators and collection tasks
- Collection plans
- Prioritising effort
- Advanced search techniques
- Social media research
- Public records and corporate data
- Archiving and capture
- Reliability and credibility grading
- Detecting disinformation
- Corroboration
- Recording provenance
- Protecting the researcher
- Managed attribution and personas
- Safe browsing environments
- Avoiding exposure of the requirement
- Image and video verification
- Metadata extraction
- Geolocation and chronolocation
- Satellite and mapping sources
- Link analysis
- Event timelines
- Analysis of competing hypotheses
- Confidence and estimative language
- Assessment structure
- Writing for decision-makers
- Briefing techniques
- Reporting exercise
Who it's for
Government, defence, law-enforcement, corporate security and risk analysts, and investigators who rely on open-source intelligence.
Before you start
- Basic research, analytical and internet skills, and an understanding of intelligence concepts.
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