Micah Hoffman from The OSINT Curious Project: Sharing OSINT Techniques with the World

Devoting himself to the OSINT world for more than decades, Micah Hoffman is a highly active member of the Cyber Security and OSINT communities. Micah works with the federal government, commercial, and internal customers and conducts many different Cyber Security tasks, such as penetration testing, OSINT investigations, and risk assessment. Micah is also the president of The OSINT Curious Project, the Principal Investigator and owner of Spotlight Infosec, the founder of the My OSINT Training, and the co-founder of the OSINT Games CTF Experience. In this episode, Micah talks about: How he lands in OSINT Skillsets required for OSINTers Future challenges and suggestions Recommendations for OSINT beginners How The OSINT Curious Project starts Challenges for forming the OSINT community and solutions His professional projects and CTFs His favorite OSINT tools Advice for investigators to protect themselves An interesting investigation he had before Areas OSINTers need to deep dive into His personal goals for the future 0:00 Welcome! 0:41 Brief intro about Micah Hoffman 2:36 What brought you into the world OSINT? 5:57 What skills do you think OSINTers need nowadays? 8:21 What do you think about the future and upcoming challenges? 11:47 What are your recommendations for beginners? 14:25 How did The OSINT Curious Project start? 16:47 What are the challenges to build OSINT community and solutions? 19:37 Tell us about your training & professional projects! 24:35 Let's talk about the CTFs! 28:14 Share with us some upcoming projects! 29:28 What are your favorite OSINT tools? 31:58 Any advice for investigatiors to protect themselves? 35:52 Tell us an interesting investigation! 40:56 What are the areas/challenges OSINTers need to deep dive to handle? 43:27 What are your personal goals in the future? ■ About The Pivot Brought to you by Maltego, The Pivot deep dives into topics pivoting from information security to the criminal underground. Each episode features interviews with experts from the industry and research fields and explores how they connect the dots. ■ About Maltego Used by investigators worldwide, Maltego is a graphical link analysis tool that allows users to mine, merge, and map data from OSINT and third-party data integrations for all sorts of investigations—cybersecurity, person of interest, fraud, and more. The podcast streams free on Spotify. You can also watch it all go down on YouTube. Don't forget to subscribe to our Twitter and LinkedIn to stay on top of our latest updates, tutorials, webinars, and deep dives. For more information about Maltego, visit our website.