Internet Research Skills for Financial Investigators™ – Module 2

Course Overview

Building
upon the skills gained during Module 1, this second module will
introduce investigators to the principles of open source research and
the intelligence analysis process. As well as guidelines for the
critical analysis of Internet-sourced information, and the analysis and
dissemination of research results, students will examine the structure
of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and how search engines can (and
sometimes cannot) index individual documents. Web site scanning and
downloading utilities will be demonstrated, in addition to a number of
translation tools and the Internet Archive. IP addresses and WHOIS
lookups will also be introduced.