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Online Strategies provides training in using open sources, particularly the Internet, for effective and efficient information collection for OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) applications.
Online Strategies' OSINT seminars are presented at the customer's site and have been given to a variety of governmental agencies and ministries of three countries, and also to companies, associations, and conferences.
Course content is tailored to the specific customer and the length of courses can range from one to three days.
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For a sampling of the kinds of websites typically covered, see onstrat.com/osint
The Instructors:
Randolph Hock, Ph.D.
For the last fourteen years Ran Hock has been creating and presenting courses on using the Internet effectively for research. Over his career he has trained over 15,000 online users in thirteen countries, including presenting OSINT courses for intelligence agencies of three countries and courses for major international organizations. Ran is the author of seven books on using the Internet and is a frequent contributor and columnist for professional publications.
Ran is active in the American Society for Information Science and Technology for which he has served on the Board of Directors, and chaired committees and chapters, and is also a member of the Association of Independent Information Professionals and the International Association for Intelligence Education. Ran's biography has appeared in Who's Who in America and he is a recipient of OSS.NET's OSINT Platinum Candle Award
Ran has held management and training positions with DIALOG and Knight-Ridder Information Services, and has been a reference librarian at MIT and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his training and writing activities, from 2007-2010 he served as an adjunct faculty member for the Johns Hopkins University Masters Degree Program in Intelligence Analysis (Division of Public Safety Leadership) and currently serves as adjunct faculty for two other universities.
Steve Edwards, MBE
With over 30 years operational and detective experience in law enforcement Steve left the public sector in 2007. During a career which had focussed most recently on organised crime, terrorism and cybercrime Steve had developed innovative new techniques for intelligence gathering and was one of the key initiators of the open source intelligence discipline.
As a law enforcement officer, Steve trained hundreds of officers in the use of the Internet (and other open sources) for intelligence gathering and with his private company Steve trained police, industry and government investigators at all levels.
Over the past 3 years Steve has worked in senior manager positions at eBay UK where he had primary responsibility for law enforcement relations and was responsible for training over 4,000 police officers in the use of eBay as an open source intelligence aid to investigations.
Steve’s career includes roles at New Scotland Yard’s Intelligence Directorate where he founded the first law enforcement Open Source Intelligence Bureau, an achievement which was recognised by Queen Elizabeth when Steve was awarded Membership of the Order of the British Empire. Steve also served on the private staff of the Metropolitan Police commissioner focussing solely on the exploitation of open source information in support of police and government affairs and also the National High Tech Crime Unit and the Serious Organised Crime Agency.
To inquire about courses, call 800-871-4033 (from within the U.S.) or 001.703.242.6078 (from outside the U.S.) or email Ran at ran@onstrat.com.
