Security Intelligence Fundamentals
A self-paced foundation course for beginner analysts. Learn how to find information, judge it, log it, turn it into a judgment, and write it so the people who need it can act in time. Under 4 hours.
Lesson 0.1 Welcome: video ✅ ready
Lesson 0.2 How to pass: text lesson
What is your competency level Now? (Not a Quiz)
Lesson 1.1 From noise to decisions.
Lesson 1.2 Left of bang: proactive vs reactive.
Lesson 1.3 Two warnings: Nairobi 2013 and Kampala 2014
Lesson 1.4 The intelligence cycle: a page
Lesson 1.4 Practice: which stage?
Chapter 1 Quiz
Lesson 2.1 What OSINT is and isn’t
Lesson 2.2 Staying legal and ethical
Lesson 2.3 Your own digital footprint
Download 2.3 Job aid A: OSINT Rules of the Road
Lesson 2.3b Using Gemini safely
Lesson Demo 2.4 - Search like an analyst v5
Lesson 2.5 Where to Look
Lesson 2.6 - Capture it or lose it
Chapter 2 Quiz
Lesson 2.7 Assignment 1: Answer a request for information
Lesson 3.1 Judge the source, then the information
Lesson 3.2 Verified, unverified, or unknown?
Lesson 3.3 Send it, log it, or bin it
Lesson 3.4 Anatomy of a good record
Lesson 3.5 Entering a record
Lesson 3.6 Spot the error
Practice Quiz 3.6 Spot the error: practice
Chapter 3 Quiz
Lesson 4.1 Thinking traps
Lesson 4.2 Patterns, trends and links
Lesson 4.3 Saying how sure you are
Lesson 4.4 Warning signs
Chapter 4 Quiz
Lesson 5.1 Write for your reader: BLUF
Lesson 5.2 The flash report, step by step
Lesson 5.3 Other products you will see
Lesson 5.4 The quality check
Lesson 5.5 Assignment 2: write the flash
Lesson 5.6 Quiz