Friday 1pm-4pm Trace labs osint workshop with tom hocker

Trace Labs is a Canadian based not-for-profit organization that uses  responsibly crowd sourced Open Source Intelligence collection to augment  a traditional missing person investigation. Since 2018, they have been  educating new investigators, advocating for the value of Open Source  Intelligence in the law enforcement community and applying physical  Search and Rescue (SAR) principles to digital investigations. They’ve  worked with law enforcement agencies across the globe to bring  convergent volunteers together to combat the missing persons epidemic.  As the problem scales, so must the solution.  

Trace Labs Director Tom Hocker will be onsite giving a 4 hour  People OSINT workshop. Tom has volunteered with Trace Labs since 2019  and is currently a Senior Security Engineer on Kroger’s Threat  Operations team. This isn’t your typical workshop and will cover a wide  range of topics. Tom will be covering:  

• Introduction to OSINT: What it is and what it isn’t
• Ethical considerations in OSINT: How to investigate responsibly
• Getting Started: How to structure an investigation
• OPSEC in OSINT: Protecting yourself and others during an investigation. Did someone say Sock Puppets?!
• Techniques: Specific techniques you will use during a People focused investigation
• Case Studies: Going over real world investigations to demonstrate useful techniques as well as lessons learned