This is a review for the #MOIS - CERTIFIED OSINT EXPERT by https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmosse/. This post is my own opinion and experience and I declined a request to post a request earlier until I was further into the certification course.
Last year I decided to explore getting certified as an OSINT practitioner, having performed OSINT investigations and currently teaching OSINT on various platforms. Sadly, the number of places to become OSINT certified is few and far between with the price ranges varying greatly. I decided to give https://www.mosse-institute.com/#/ a try given its practical approach and price. 9 months into the certification having worked on it on and off, I am finally ready to write my review. The course is broken up into several sections that each have various tasks to complete. Some of the exercises that you will be asked to perform are writing reports, utilizing various APIs to run reports, pivot analysis, etc. When you finish each assignment you will typically be tasked with recording what you did (fortunately I already had a screen recording software from my online teaching) posting the video on YouTube as a nonlisted video and zip the file(s) and uploading them. Since the submissions are videos and files it requires a person to review the submission. The turnaround time can be a day to a few weeks before you hear back. If you are on any sort of schedule to get this done, this is the wrong certification for you. The review process is… Interesting… Early on I submitted feedback, actual feedback which was received as some sort of attack on the platform. The response that I got back was less than what I would consider professional. I clarified my earlier comments and verified if this would be a problem moving forward (I was willing to “eat” the $450 USD as I felt it was better that then to waste my time), I was assured it would not, and we all moved on from there. After that experience, the general feedback has been greatly improved in suggestions and how the information is relayed. The constructive feedback is one of the great things about this certification and also one of its major drawbacks and points of contention that I have. Imagine nearing the completion of the certification, you submit your report only to have It rejected. ‘Ok, check the notes’…. ‘If you fix X..Y…X then you will pass’. Great, you fix those things and resubmit only to be rejected for things that were previously not an issue. You correct those things, and other things that were not an issue are flagged, and so on. Some of the tools that you will be required to use are either out of date or broken, this can be incredibly frustrating when dealing with (I already submitted a notification on these). Things like this feel like at least part of this course were conceived some time ago and never vetted before publishing it. The platform clearly is rife with bugs and incomplete section (some of which have been fixed) and other that have not, uch as the progress completion being broken. Another issue that you are likely to run into is if you have an issue with not knowing how to do something, code a Flicker search using the API for example, you will be directed to the dead forums on their site for help from the community.... All in all, the approach to the certification is a good approach as a practical certification I feel is a better test of a person’s skill versus a multiple choice quiz along with the low cost. Even still I do not recommend taking this as per the previous statements that I have made about this course. I do plan on spending more money and starting over with another OSINT certification elsewhere. I’m not looking forward to spending even more money or spending more time, however we need to do what we need to.
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The site has a new logo and some of the pages are being re-vamped (again). I added an OSINT section and a team page for the 3 or so people that visit the page on occasion ;) Anyways, more updates on the way and still working on the OSINT certification, which I will go into more details later. Well, finally got things sorted out with Razer and all is back. I am finally back up and running, updating the courses and creating some new content now. Also making some minor changes to the website here, trying to make it a little more tolerable.Dear students,
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