OSINT in law enforcement investigations: Buy, Build or Both?

It is important to have a diverse skill set in your OSINT team, as well as a broad knowledge base. One of the current trends in OSINT is to build your own OSINT tooling. But is the effort of building your own tools worth the time being spent or should you rather buy an OSINT platform such as Maltego? Or both?

On May 24th at 15:30 Henri Beek from DataExpert and Steffen Iwan from Maltego will be discussing this matter in a joint webinar.

They will answer the following questions:

• How to create and maintain a diverse skill set for your OSINT team?
• Why is a good knowledge base important even though tooling is used?
• Which areas of investigations should be done with self-built tools?
• Which areas of investigations should be done in Maltego?
• What are advantages of having own tools?
• What are advantages of using Maltego?

This will be a hands-on webinar, in which you will see real life cases of OSINT investigations and how they can be solved either manually with self-built tools or within the Maltego platform.

Steffen is currently the Head of Direct Sales at Maltego. In his role he is working heavily with Government Offices and Law Enforcement Agencies around the globe to show them how to leverage Maltego to its fullest potential. He can provide you with a broad overview of what Maltego is being used in law enforcement deployments - from standard website investigations to targeted social media investigations to complex corporate structure analysis.

Henri is currently an OSINT Specialist and Senior Trainer at DataExpert. In his role he is working with Law Enforcement Agencies, Customs, and other government organizations in the EMEA region to train their investigators on topics such as OSINT, SOCMINT, Cybercrime Investigations and more. From experience he can tell you the skills that are needed to conduct a thorough investigation on the net, as well as the tooling you could use to enhance your investigation.