Financial Crime and Fraud Investigations + Basic OSINT

About Financial Crime and Fraud Investigations + Basic OSINT

The "Financial Crime Investigations and Fundamentals of Open Source Intelligence - OSINT" course is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to conduct a successful financial crime and fraud investigation, as well as the basics to effectively gather and analyze Open Source Intelligence also known as OSINT.

In the first part of the course, you will be introduced to the criminal intelligence process and all its stages. You will learn analysis techniques, how to develop premises and inferences, and how to present the results in different forms.

In the second part, you will learn how to prepare the tech environment for research and use the tools needed to conduct a secure and safe investigation. You'll explore the basic fundamentals of virtual machines - VMs, VPNs, DNS records, exif data, the dark web, virtual currencies / cryptocurrencies, and much more.

To assess your knowledge, the course includes small questionnaires for some of the sections.Besides Udemy's certificate, we additionally offer a Personalized Certificate of Completion issued by The Elite Compliance Group, upon request. To obtain yours, simply send us a private message through Udemy, including the name you'd like to see on the certificate.

Please consider that due to high demand, the certificates are processed and issued at the end of each month. For instance, if you request a certificate in January, it will be provided in February.

Enroll in the course now to take your knowledge and skills to the next level and advance your career in the compliance field.

Full Course Index

Part 1: Financial Crime and Fraud Investigations

An introduction to intelligence

Information vs. Intelligence

Stages

The origins of intelligence analysis

The analyst

Criminal intelligence analysis

Intelligence analysis and organized crime

The intelligence process

What is the intelligence process?

The intelligence cycle

Direction and collection

Direction/tasking

Collection - Data gathering

Sources

Collection plan

Evaluation

Evaluation process

Evaluation tables

Collation and Analysis

Collation

Data integration and analysis

Inferences

Dissemination

Extra section - Optional articles

Sanitization

Dissemination

Axioms for an intelligence analyst

Ten standards for intelligence analysts

Basic analysis techniques

Link analysis

Inference development

Premises

Inference

Presentation of results

Oral briefings

Briefing structure

Analyze the audience

Outline your briefing

Written reports

Contents of a written report

Part 2: Open Source Intelligence | OSINT

Introduction

How OSINT fits into the intelligence cycle

Can OSINT support law enforcement?

Where does OSINT come from?

The value of OSINT for both public and private sectors

How to fight infoxication

Open sources

Preparing the environment

Virtual Machines

The browser

VPNs and More tools and tips

Research

DNS records

Archived and cached pages

Social Media

Image information

The Dark Web

Virtual Currencies