Training - IMSL: The Intelligence People

IMSL Training is designed by expert practitioners to help you enhance your skills and add value to your organisation. With Ofqual approved UK accredited (Level 1 and Level 3) courses in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Intelligence Analysis we cover the fundamental methods and techniques necessary to enhance your understanding and role performance. With structured learning, modular exercises and feedback from our experts, through a choice of classroom or online delivery methods, IMSL Training delivers real value to its students through the learning outcomes achieved. We are an approved ELCAS training provider, proudly promoting lifelong learning for members of the UK Armed Forces.

Courses Tailored To You

IMSL Training courses are designed to help you learn the necessary techniques and methods to improve and enhance any pre-existing knowledge or to learn completely new skills. We bring experience and insight to life with case-study examples and modular exercises designed to provide you with the confidence to transfer these skills into your organisation.

Your Choice of Delivery Method

Classroom

Whether on site at our specialist training suite or at your choice of location, we believe personal interaction and engagement brings a different level of value to our courses.

Virtual Classroom

Instructor-led, real-time training when on-screen learning makes better use of your time.

On-Demand, Online Platform

Log in anywhere in the world and take training at your own pace in the knowledge that you are fully supported with examples and exercise feedback throughout.

Capacity Building

Development of international courses to meet specific needs with delivery in-country.

IMSL Accredited Courses

Add real value through a recognised qualification. These courses are accredited in the UK by the Ofqual approved awarding body ProQual:

IMSL are recognised experts in the management and exploitation of open source data and tools. With the continued growth in the use of social media platforms and internet dependency, there is a vast amount of information openly available that can help to identify people and both their physical and online patterns of life.

With our ProQual Level 1 Award in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) course, IMSL will help you understand the data landscape and how best to navigate this in an ever-changing world. You will be guided through search techniques and on-line security, learn about tools and techniques and how to verify data sources.

You will achieve a recognised, accredited qualification in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

OSINT Themes covered:

Open-Source Environment
Search Techniques
On-line Security
Legal & Welfare Issues
OSINT Tools & Resources
Source Verification
Browsers and Search Engines
Localised Searching
Video and image searching
Investigating People
Investigating Organisations

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IMSL will build on the skills learnt in our ProQual Level 1 Award in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) course and enrich and enhance this with Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) and a broader understanding of the power of investigation and search techniques.

The expansion and exploitation of Social Media platforms is undeniable with its sphere of influence now a factor in everyday life from individual communications, organisational campaigns, or national level threats. “Fake news” has become a feature of media reporting internationally. IMSL practitioners can orientate you through this landscape and add value to real life scenarios.

With our ProQual Level 3 Award in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) course, IMSL will help you understand the data landscape and how best to navigate this in an ever-changing world.

You will achieve a recognised, accredited qualification in Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT).

Additional themes covered:

Introduction to social media
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
User communities
Forums
Profile creation
Whistleblowing sites
Content capture
Webscraping and APIs
Automating intelligence collection and data analysis
Dark web

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IMSL have a depth of accumulated experience in intelligence process management which your organisation can benefit from through better exploitation of data in support of critical decision making. Our training is based on well-established principles developed through military intelligence and the police National Intelligence Model. These techniques are applicable to commercial organisations and a broad spectrum of government agencies and public sector bodies.

We are able to tailor specific data sets or provide industry specific relevant case study examples on request to further enhance your learning outcomes.

Our Intelligence Analysis courses will provide you with:

The theory and principles of intelligence
An understanding of collection methods
The skills to analyse and techniques for disseminating data
An ability to think critically
An understanding of influences that distort rational thinking

With our ProQual Level 3 Award in Intelligence Analysis course, IMSL will enable you to challenge ideas with supportable data and provide value though practising a questioning and dynamic approach to problem solving in a commercial way.

You will achieve a recognised, accredited qualification in Intelligence Analysis.

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IMSL CPD Certificated 1-Day Courses

CPD An Introduction to OSINT

What is OSINT and where do I begin? Explaining the principles and how to implement them including workflows and case management.

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CPD Machine Set Up and Online Security

How to set up a machine for research including the addition of add-ons and extensions. How to deploy safely.

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CPD Creation and Management of Online Profiles

This module will take you through all the steps needed to create a suite of profiles suitable for safe deployment.

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CPD Conducting an Investigation

During this module you will be provided with tools and resources to conduct safe and efficient research. We will also look at the intelligence cycle and how to audit your research.

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CPD Understanding Dark Web(s)

This module will demystify the dark webs and provide resources to conduct safe research. The focus will be on The Onion Router (ToR) but also touch on Zeronet, IPFS, i2p and Freenet.

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Bespoke Modular Courses

IMSL offer a bespoke modular approach to training and are able to provide a targeted mix of skills in a tailored course. This enables you to select those modules which best suit your organisational requirements, safe in the knowledge that they will be delivered by our experts. These can be delivered on customer premises or at another suitable location including our “in house” training facility situated at Box House, Bath. The course length would be dictated by the number of modules selected and the depth of understanding required. Popular modules include:

Exploitation of the Dark Web
Cryptocurrency Investigations
User Communities and Image Board Research including Reddit, Gab, Parler, 4chan and 8Kun
Exploiting Patents
Android Emulation
IP and Domain Vulnerability
Understanding RIPA and GDPR
Telegram, Telegraph, TikTok and Whatsapp
Understanding Bitcoin
Online Reconnaissance (Offensive and Defensive)
Email and Telephone Number Research
Effective research of Facebook and Instagram
Twitter and third-party tools
An understanding of VK
Leaked Data
Evidential purchases surface and Dark Web
Developing critical thinking and analytical skills
Power BI in intelligence analysis