Hi @yo_bj I was looking here for people with the CIPT cert because I am thinking about studying for it. I wanted to know how your experience has been and if it's actually useful in your line of work.

I would prefer to help individuals protect their privacy online instead of organizations protecting customers, but there's no cert for that, but this is the best route that I can see.

I don't use this account enough, Anyway, my first #OSINT tool:

https://theinfopunk.com/posts/rss-saver/

On OSINT Training:

Sorry this is kind of a long post.

If you go to LinkedIn, Indeed, Dice, or any number of other job sites that require skills in #OSINT, you're going to notice that there are that many of them are government/military jobs that require Top Secret clearance. Purely civilian jobs are much harder to come by

It seems like every OSINT practitioner our there has their own training course for the general public. Some of them are multi-thousand dollars. I saw one recently that has 20 hours of video lecture and a 100 page manual for >$3000.

Who are taking and paying for these courses and are there enough Civilian jobs out there to warrant them even existing? Concerning those gov't jobs that require TS clearence, they are mostly requiring military certifications, though some also allow for some of the VERY expensive certifications also.

This troubles me because it makes me wonder if there is any hope in actually getting any job using OSINT.