Online Training: Updates & Membership Discounts

Posted By: Jason Edison

Periodically, we like to share some of the tactics, tools, and topics that we’ve been tackling recently in our online training program. If it has been a while since you last visited the training, the summary below will bring you up to speed on what has been added recently. We continue to add new lessons every month, along with the tools, templates, and resources that you have come to expect from your IntelTechniques membership.

We also wanted to remind former training members that, although training costs have risen in recent years, you are always welcome to renew your membership at your original discounted price point. Contact Jason at [email protected] directly to reactivate your account or if you have any questions. No chatbots, no AI agents, and no call centers. Laura or I will assist you directly because we think you deserve proper support from real humans.

New Lessons & Updates

The training currently includes more than 130 hours of video content, 1,000+ pages of digital guides, a custom OSINT virtual machine, specialized scripts, and report templates, with new content added every month. Below is a sample of recent lessons, tools, and resources added to the program and you can view the full curriculum at inteltechniques.net.

Triaging Leads

Best practices for deciding which leads to pursue early in an investigation, with an optional real-world practical exercise.

Event Threat Assessments

A scenario-based lesson on researching events, related issues, and online discussions to support safety planning and tactical decision-making.

Privacy Assessments

A workflow for conducting vulnerability assessments on cooperating targets. New Excel and Obsidian templates are provided.

Developer Tools: Removing Page Elements

A demonstration on using browser developer tools to remove overlays and reveal hidden page content during online investigations.

Cultural Intelligence

Guidance on interpreting interests, beliefs, online behavior, photos, videos, usernames, and cultural context to improve investigative analysis.

Investigating a Scam Email – Exercise & Demo

A practical attribution exercise using a real-world scam email, followed by a walkthrough of the investigative workflow.

Domains, IP Addresses, & DNS

A foundational overview of how domains, IP addresses, and DNS work in the context of web traffic.

How Packets Work

A companion write-up to the Domains, IP Addresses, and DNS lesson, explaining what happens at the packet level when a browser requests a website.

APIs

An overview of application programming interfaces appropriate for OSINT work and how to add them to your workflow.

Due Diligence Reports

An overview of core components, templates, and best practices for professional due diligence reporting.

Updated Tools Dashboard

An updated set of custom OSINT tools available only to training members, including hosted and self-hosted options.

Client Expectations: Bug Sweep Scenario

A real-world counter-surveillance scenario used to discuss best practices for managing challenging client expectations.

Sanctions Evasion Report & Resources

A sample report and resources focused on business-entity research in the context of a sanctions-evasion investigation.

Address Verification Demo

A demonstration combining search engines, people-search results, and government databases to locate and verify a target residential address.

Premium Breach Data Services

A comparison spreadsheet covering popular premium breach-data services. This supplements our lesson series on building and self-hosting your own breach-data collections.

Triaging a Personal Data Security Incident

Actionable steps to take in the first 24 hours after a cyber incident to stop the bleeding and mitigate damage.

OSINT Case Study: “Call to Arms”

This case study was shared by one of our members and walks through their approach to an OSINT investigation.

Investigative Pivots

Best practices for identifying new leads and uncovering new investigative paths.

PDF Editors & Utilities

Alternative PDF readers, editors, and utilities for preparing OSINT reports. This is a useful lesson for anyone interested in moving away from Adobe products and unfriendly subscription fees.

Transitioning to Linux from Windows

Tips and considerations for moving away from Windows and over to Linux as a primary operating system.

Cloudflare Tunnels

A practical introduction to using Cloudflare Tunnels for low-cost remote access to infrastructure and self-hosted tools.

Note-taking Templates in Excel Format

Two new Excel templates for collecting, organizing, and reusing investigative findings.

Telegram Scraping with Python, Part 1

The first lesson in a series using Python scripts to automate collection of Telegram content.

GitHub

A walkthrough of GitHub navigation, search options, and profile research.

Images & Photographs

An updated lesson on tactics and tools for processing digital images during OSINT investigations.

10-Day Security

An updated digital-security guide with tips for coaching others through a 10-step digital security makeover.

Regular Expressions

This lesson explains how to use regex for locating and filtering patterned data in large files, such as breach data.

Executive Summaries

An example-driven lesson on writing stronger executive summaries.

Linux Terminal

A beginner-friendly guide to the Linux terminal and common command-line tools.

Infiltration

Tactics and guidelines for online infiltration work, with discussion of policy, risk, and the importance of professional judgment.

What Makes IntelTechniques Training Different

  • IntelTechniques instructors are active-duty professionals from the U.S. intelligence community with decades of real-world experience. When evaluating OSINT training, we believe that instructor qualifications matter. You should know whether the people teaching the material have actual experience using these tactics at a professional level. When we are not teaching you about intelligence work, we are actively working real cases and operations in the intelligence field.
  • Our training format is demonstration-based and uses real-world targets. This is not “death by PowerPoint.” The program is built around practical tools, repeatable workflows, investigative tradecraft, and the full intelligence process from triage through report writing.
  • We write our own curriculum. Our materials have become the foundation that many other OSINT training programs, instructors, and academic courses use as a reference point.
  • The program is designed to provide substantial value at a practical price point. We encourage you to compare programs carefully and look at the details: depth of content, instructor experience, student support, templates, tools, updates, and practical application.
  • We focus our time and resources on curriculum and student support rather than marketing. Our growth has relied largely on word of mouth, and we are proud that the program is known for the strength of its content. This is why you do not hear from us often about the program. We want to respect your time and inbox.
  • Support is direct and personal. Michael, Laura, or Jason will assist you directly; you will not be routed to a call center, support bot, or random staff member.

Certification Considerations

Many certification programs rely primarily on academic testing and recurring fees. We believe a written test alone does not prove that someone can perform intelligence work, so our certification process is different.

  • Candidates complete a 10-day real-world OSINT mission resulting in a professional intelligence report that can serve as a meaningful portfolio sample.
  • The process is challenging and not for everyone, but successful candidates clear a high bar for OSINT certification.
  • IntelTechniques certifies your work directly. We do not charge additional fees for a third-party logo, and we do not believe you should have to pay recurring maintenance fees to keep a certification you earned.

Our certification is tough and requires a significant time commitment, but if you pass, you will have achieved something that sets you apart from most intelligence professionals.

Reactivating Your Membership

Former IntelTechniques online training members are always welcome back at their previous rate. If you would like to reactivate your account at your previous discounted rate, please contact Jason directly at [email protected], and we will provide a payment link at your discounted membership rate. There is no deadline, no strings attached, and no hoops to jump through. You are welcome to reach out any time with questions or to regain access to our new content.

UNREDACTED Magazine 012

Issue #012 is now available (18 Articles - 66 Pages) by the IntelTechniques team for $10!

https://unredactedmagazine.com

https://payhip.com/b/fS2NA

Contents:

News & Updates
Hardware TOTP: Revolving 2FA Codes Without an App
Placing Telephone Orders to Avoid VPN Flags: Bypass IP Blocklists
Minimal Android Emulation: Terminal-Based Mobile VMs
The ID.me Challenge: Create Accounts with the Least Invasion Possible
The Photocopied ID Strategy: Copies of Copies of Copies...
Access Full Terminal History: Never Lose Another Command
Fun with AppleScripts: Daily Convenience and Productivity on macOS
Your Health Records are Leaking: Any Office Can Access Your Data
Repurpose Hard Drives with TrueNAS: Merge Smaller Drives for Backups
Self-Hosted Genealogy: Research Without Compromising Control
Deleting Un-Deletable Accounts: Bending the Truth to Force Removal
Security.txt is Broken: Abuse by Spammers, Scammers, & Wannabe Hackers
Drive Specifications Matter II: 80Gbps Enclosures
SDRTrunk: Avoid Expensive Police Scanners with Software
Q&A

No third-party ads.
No outside sponsors.
No A.I. slop
No conflicts of interest.
No fluff.
No filler.
No agenda.
Only detailed information.

We anticipate #013 will be released in Autumn or Winter of 2026.

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Updated OSINT VM

We just pushed several updates to the OSINT VM thanks to @jknsec:

Updated linux.txt and install.sh to reflect changes within several applications.
Modified user.sh to reflect change with Maigret.
We highly recommend building a new VM to take advantage of the modifications, which bring back full function to several dead applications. Log into the OSINT portal from the book to see everything.
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Upcoming OSINT Live Courses

Almost all of our live and virtual training sessions are conducted privately for a specific group or agency. This allows us to customize the content for your needs. On rare occasion, we participate in a course with open enrollment. For the first time in years, we have two upcoming courses open to the public:

April 25-26, 2026: LEIU/IALEIA Conference, Orlando, Florida
August 3-4, 2026: BlackHat, Las Vegas, Nevada

The 2-day LEIU/IALEIA course starts at only $650, which is the lowest price we have ever offered for a 2-day course. We will be providing new OSINT instruction at both events and the links above provide enrollment details.

80Gpbs Drive Enclosures

In Issue 011 of UNREDACTED Magazine, I devoted an article to the importance of drive specifications in regard to the disk speed which can be achieved. The purpose of the article was two-fold. I wanted to explain how important protocols were, such as Thunderbolt 3/4/5, USB 2/3.2 Gen 2/3.2 Gen 2x2/4, PCIe Gen 2/3/4/5, and SATA I/II/II, when we considered drives for our daily use, but I also wanted to be sure people were not wasting their money on the latest speed marketing if their devices did not support those promises. The focus of the article was on 40Gbps NVMe drive enclosures which were reliable delivering 3,000 MB/s in real-world use, which is quite impressive for an external drive. In that article, I briefly stated that the only way we could do better was with 80Gbps enclosures and ports which supported those speeds. The response was immediate. Readers wanted to know how to get more speed from large external drives.

In that article, I found that the Qwiizlab 40Gbps USB4 enclosure (https://amzn.to/3OgrIub) performed better than more expensive competitors, so I went back to that company to test their 80Gbps option (https://amzn.to/3Nj3zD2). I inserted the same 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe drive (https://amzn.to/4qwf7Ar) into the new enclosure and began my tests. The following displays the device next to a Mac Studio computer.

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I first tried it on my aging MacBook Pro M1 Pro which only has Thunderbolt 4 ports. As expected, I achieved results similar to the tests with the 40Gbps enclosure within the magazine. This is because port specifications matter. That computer simply does not have ports capable of taking advantage of an enclosure offering 80Gbps. For that computer, a less expensive enclosure and drive would work almost as well. However, this was a much different story when connected to a more modern computer.

I found the fastest computer in the office, a Mac Studio with a M4 Max chip and Thunderbolt 5 ports. First, I tested the internal 2TB drive for reference:

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This was standard for the large drive and Max chip. This gives me blazing fast access to large chunks of data on the internal drive. Next, I tested the external 80Gbps enclosure:

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I was shocked. I was getting faster speeds from an external, non-apple, drive than the overpriced Apple drive soldered onto the motherboard. I was skeptical at first, but larger data speed test were just as fast. I pivoted to my real-world test. I copied a 250 GB database from the internal drive to the external:

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There were no pauses or signs of throttling. In less than a minute, I copied over this huge database which would have taken 30 minutes on a portable USB disk. The device did get warm, but never hot. There is no fan, so it is important to attach the included thermal pad to the drive as explained in the manual.

The catch: price. Like any other technology, the latest advancements will cost more than the previous generation. I once paid $500 for a 1TB, dual 3.5" SATA disk array many years ago. It was slow but offered unbelievable storage at the time. I now pay less than $100 for a 1 TB microSD card which is tiny and faster. Expect to pay just under $200 for an 80Gbps enclosure while the 40Gbps options will be less than $70. I suspect we will see these prices eventually drop, but it may be a while before we see 120Gbps drives emerge. We will need faster NVMe options before than can be a possibility, but I am thrilled with 7,000 MB/s in real-word use.

Who is this for? Only people who have the need for the speed. If you have a computer with ports capable of 80Gbps or higher, then you might be justified in this upgrade. Since I move huge databases around often, I am now hooked on this enclosure. I was able to offload a terabyte of data from my internal drive to the external in approximately two minutes. It seems too good to be true.

I will repeat myself from the magazine article. My first hard drive was a 5400 RPM spinning disk which achieved 100 MB/s. The later 7200 RPM drives achieved 130 MB/s and the rich people who had SCSI drives were getting 150 MB/s. When I had an early SSD offering 480 MB/s , I was confident that was the end. I never imagined that we would get over 30x those speeds on solid-state medium back then. I often remind myself of this when I start looking at the latest gadgets. We are truly spoiled.

Disclosures: I am not affiliated with any companies mentioned within this article. I was not paid or asked to write this article. I receive commissions through Amazon affiliate links, but not directly from any of
these companies.