Understand Your Exposure

Learn exactly how IP addresses, cookies, user agents, and browser fingerprints combine to reveal your identity, location, and research interests.

Tools and Techniques

Apply real-world methods including VPNs, virtual machines, and minimal-touch investigation techniques to reduce your visibility online.

Build a Repeatable Framework

Develop attribution assessments that match your OPSEC measures to the specific risks of each investigation — not a one-size-fits-all checklist, but a systematic approach you can apply to any scenario.

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Every online action leaves traces. This course teaches you to understand your digital footprint from an adversary's perspective — how IP addresses, browser fingerprints, cookies, and user agents can expose your identity and intent. 

You'll learn practical techniques to minimise attribution and develop a systematic framework for assessing risk before undertaking OSINT work. 

"This course bridges the gap between technical knowledge of online tracking and a practical, defensible process for planning OPSEC in the online environment" - Head of Training, Jacob Hunter.

ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE

This course takes approximately 3 hours to complete. It is entirely self-paced, allowing you to work through the material at your own speed and revisit content as needed.


WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

This course is designed for OSINT practitioners, investigators, and analysts who need to understand how their online activities create attribution risk and how to mitigate that risk before conducting research. It is suitable for beginners through intermediate practitioners who want a systematic approach to operational security. No prior OSINT experience is required, though basic familiarity with web browsers and internet use is assumed.


PREREQUISITES

None required. Basic familiarity with web browsers and general internet use is assumed.

WHAT'S NEXT?

After completing this course, you can progress in two directions depending on your operational focus.

OSINT Primer is the recommended foundation if you haven't completed it already. It establishes core tradecraft that this course builds upon.

Person of Interest & Social Media Investigations applies your attribution management skills to systematic research on individuals across multiple platforms.

Dark Web Essentials teaches you to safely access and document content on the Tor network, where strong operational security is essential.

COURSE CURRICULUM

    1. Welcome & Course Introduction

    2. Before We Start

    3. What is Operational Security in OSINT?

    4. The Basics of the Internet

    5. Quiz: Introduction to Online Attribution

    1. Investigating an IP Address

    2. Website Tracking

    3. IP Logging with Short URLs and Website Analytics

    4. Quiz: Network-Level Attribution

    1. Exposing Device and Browser with User Agents

    2. Investigating User Agent Strings

    3. Tracking Behaviour with Cookies

    4. Investigating Cookies in your Browser

    5. Quiz: Browser-Level Attribution

    1. Browser Fingerprinting Explained

    2. Testing your Browser Fingerprint

    3. How do we prevent browser fingerprinting?

    4. Quiz: Fingerprinting and Third-Party Tracking

    1. What Risk Do Third Party Tools Pose?

    2. Why Is This Tool Free?

    3. Tool Transparency: What To Look For

    4. The Risk Of Data Aggregation

    5. Quiz: Third Party Tools in OSINT

    1. Introduction to Attribution Management

    2. Tips and Techniques for Managing Online Attribution

    3. Attribution Through Tradecraft

    4. Minimising Attribution Through Tradecraft

    5. Quiz: Attribution Management Principles

Course Snapshot

  • $249.00
  • 45 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content