Top 10 OSINT Courses for Beginners | The Top10 Series

"The Top10 Series" where we will be sharing all the top resources for learning OSINT which are easily accessible on Internet.

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Let’s start the series with the first post on OSINT courses covering both, free and paid courses.

1. SEC497: Practical Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) by SANS Institute
   Type: Paid (Approx $8000)
   Mode: Online and Offline
   Review: The course quality is really amazing, but it’s not affordable for majority of the people. We don’t recommend investing such a big amount in a course, better follow other paid courses which are affordable or go with the free ones.

2. SEC587: Advanced Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) by SANS Institute
   Type: Paid (Approx $8000)
   Mode: Online and Offline
   Review: The course quality is amazing but again, it’s not affordable. We don’t recommend this course as it’s really very expensive. Secondly, you can follow it the best way only if you have completed SEC497 earlier.

3. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Fundamentals by TCM Security
   Type: Paid (Membership - $29.99)
   Mode: Online
   Review: The course content is awesome. You can go for it if you want to follow a structured path and want to learn the fundamentals. If you have decided that you want to do a paid course on OSINT, those who can afford can take it. Purchase their all-access membership plan when you a lot of free time, so that you can learn from their course which you will be able to access for free.

4. OSINT: Open-Source Intelligence by Jeff M (via Udemy)
   Type: Paid(Ranges between $5-$50)
   Mode: Online
   Review: The course content is good. Recommended for beginner if you want to learn from a paid course and want to learn faster. Keep an eye on the price and purchase it when it has price of $5.

5. A Beginner's Guide to OSINT by Dheeraj Yadav (via Udemy)
   Type: Paid(Free for You)
   Mode: Online
   Review: The course is still under development. We are trying to get all our recording work done and then will update everything at once. Redeem the free coupon and start the course after 15jan2024. If coupon is expired for you, join our telegram channel where we share free coupon every month and you can purchase it in cheap anytime.
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6. Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) in 5 Hours by The Cyber Mentor
   Type: Free
   Mode: Online
   Review: Recommended for beginners. This is a beginner’s friendly course, worth the time for beginners, others don’t go for it. Instead, directly explore their GitHub repo for this course and move ahead.
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7. OSINT at Home by Bendobrown
   Type: Free
   Mode: Online
   Review: Highly recommended for all. For beginners, watch all videos in sequence, others, filter out the videos by yourself.

8. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) by Hacker-arise
   Type: Free
   Mode: Online
   Review: It’s a type of blog format course, good for those who loves reading. Content quality is really good.

9. An Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence by Security Blue Team
   Type: Free
   Mode: Online
   Review: It’s an active learning-based course. Recommended for all. You will enjoy doing the exercises.

10. Open-source Intelligence by Basel Institute of Governance
    Type: Online
    Mode: Online
    Review: Again, it’s one more learning-based course, highly recommended for all.

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