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OSINT and Big Data for emergent security challenges (T1) / Applied OSINT (T2)

This course combines Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) methodologies with Big Data processing to equip students with the skills to retrieve, analyze, and manage publicly available information for intelligence purposes. Students will learn OSINT principles, digital tools, data credibility assessment, and online footprint management. The course also covers the ethical, technological, and legal aspects of OSINT, ensuring students can effectively apply intelligence-gathering techniques while maintaining data security and compliance.

At the end of the course, Students will:

  • Gain hands-on experience with OSINT tools and techniques to collect and analyze intelligence from open sources.
  • Learn how to handle, process, and generate intelligence deliverables from large datasets.
  • Understand how to protect digital identities, manage online footprints, and assess cybersecurity risks.
  • Develop a strong foundation in the legal and ethical considerations of OSINT and data collection in intelligence operations.

2nd

Study Year

3rd

Semester

2

No of Credits / ECTS

Lecturers

Dr. Aitana Radu

aitana.radu@um.edu.mt

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The CINTEL course programme and study units presented on this website were prepared as part of the work for INSET, an EU-supported programme under the Commission’s Erasmus Mundus Design Measures (EMDN) scheme. The CINTEL programme presented in this website is currently undergoing the different formal validation processes required within the partner Universities and therefore, as yet, is not formally finalised or approved and is  thus not open for registration of students. It is the intention of the INSET consortium partners to use part or all of the contents of this website to eventually submit an application for an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) course. Should such an application be successful and once the contents of the EMJM course are agreed between, and formally validated within, the partner universities this website will be updated with instructions as to when, where and how registration would take place.