Overview
Complete the Open Source Intelligence program and earn a microcredential
Upon successfully completing this program, you will receive a microcredential recognizing your learning achievement. Complete with details of the skills and specialized knowledge you have acquired, the microcredential is digitally shareable, making it easy to add to your resume, LinkedIn profile and to share with current or prospective employers.
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The Open Source Intelligence program teaches you the latest technology, research techniques and tools to collect and assess data. Learn how to analyze captured data to protect business interests and optimize company operations to be more competitive in today’s fast-paced marketplace.
- Learn how to capture relevant data from a wide range of sources
- Accurately assess and monitor the value and quality of collected information
- Recognize cyber threats and safeguard your privacy online
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Program highlights Learn More
- Now offered as a microcredential
- Latest technology and advanced research techniques
- Taught by industry experts
- Open enrolment program
Open Source Intelligence program features:
- Courses teach current real-world OSINT tools, techniques and skills
- Convenient online courses to fit your life
- Learn from open source intelligence experts

What you'll learn Learn More
- How to access and investigate relevant OSINT data
- Methods to track competitors and marketplace trends
- How to expose fraud and crime
Through our Open Source Intelligence program, you’ll learn to:
- Utilize latest technology and advanced research techniques to investigate and find relevant information from a wide range of sources
- Recognize cyber threats and safeguard safety and privacy online
- Accurately assess value and quality of online sources and data
- Design tools and processes to collect and manage data from online and traditional sources
- Use various tools and methods to monitor online and social media sources in real time
- Process information, produce reports, and apply appropriate and useful metadata
- Structure and prepare data for analysis and visualization
- Conduct basic and advanced analysis of collected data and construct predictive models to forecast possible future outcomes
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Professionals from a variety of backgrounds, including:
- Law enforcement agencies
- Financial institutions
- IT departments
- Insurance companies
- Human Resources
- Marketing departments
Earning a Certificate of Completion in Open Source Intelligence can lead to rewarding positions such as:
- Open Source Intelligence Analyst
- Intelligence Associate
- Crime Analyst
- Fraud Prevention Associate
Open source intelligence (OSINT) skills can be used in a variety of industries, including:
- Law enforcement to better monitor national security and predict future actions
- Financial institutions to identify money laundering activities
- IT departments to detect cyber threats
- Insurance companies to expose claims fraud cases
- Human resources to investigate employees and potential candidates
- Marketing departments to effectively track competitors and marketplace trends
Upon completion of the program, students will:
- Apply advanced research techniques to find relevant information on issues of interest from a wide range of sources
- Recognize cyber threats and safeguard your safety and privacy online
- Accurately assess the value and quality of online sources and data
- Design tools and processes to collect and manage data from online and traditional sources
- Use various tools and methods to monitor online and social media sources in real time
- Process information, produce reports, and apply appropriate and useful metadata
- Structure and prepare data for analysis and visualization
- Conduct basic and advanced analysis of collected data and construct predictive models to forecast possible future
outcomes
Check out our latest Technology and Data Program Preview video to learn more about the Open Source Intelligence program
What our recent graduates say
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work.
The flexibility of the course helped me a lot to balance my work. Our field in data is continuously changing. I found that sweet balance in terms of the focus of the course. It’s a life cycle of how the data is coming in all the way to make it a service or a product. The course gives you that 360 spectrum.
Zaki
Big Data graduate
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Certificate of Completion in Open Source Intelligence
Earn the Certificate of Completion in Open Source Intelligence by completing all four required courses listed below.
Certificate of Completion in Open Source Intelligence Requirements
Note: Students may request permission to apply OSI 101 and/or OSI 102 to the Data Analytics program.
Courses (complete all 4)
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Advance your career with online Open Source Intelligence courses
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*Students may begin OSI 102 and OSI 103 any time between June 1st and August 30th, 2023, and OSI 104 any time between June 29th and September 27th, 2023, and will be given 90 days from their start time to complete the course.