Ritu Gill from OSINT Techniques: Everything about OSINT

Ritu Gill is an Intelligence Analyst with 14 years of experience working in open-source intelligence (OSINT). After a 12-year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Ritu set up a consulting business providing OSINT training and research to law enforcement and related entities across North America. In this episode, Ritu shares her OSINT research, projects, journey, and experiences with The Pivot hosts Bradley Taylor and Maltego Subject Matter Expert Carlos Fragoso. 0:00 Welcome! 0:45 Tell us about yourself! 1:05 What got you into OSINT? 2:21 What were the resources you started with? 4:30 Tell us the project fascinated you the most! 7:25 How was the feedback for the shooting map? 9:27 Any tips for people who want to get into OSINT? 16:32 Are there specific tools/techniques you use in your investigations? 20:29 Could you elaborate on the OSINTcurio.us project and the articles you wrote? 27:01 How to creat sock puppets with photo validation? 29:25 How does it differ to develop an account on a platform for various purposes? 31:49 Tell us about your website "OSINT Techniques"! 34:41 What do you think is impacting our investigatioins nowadays? 41:05 Tell us something interesting happened at the beginning of your career! 44:09 What are the 3 things to pass on to anyone getting into this field? ■ 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.