[Music] this is one path I've seen so many like origin stories recently from like Ray Baker Tom Hawker that are talking about like they got into this stuff because they went to an event like events are important in this kind of informal and emerging space of of O hey welcome to needle stack I'm Aubrey and I'm Shannon and today we're talking to you about an exciting event that we're hosting called oen up yay exciting indeed I'm so jazzed it's going to be a really cool free opportunity to level up
your o skills and here from oan experts people in the field and hopefully gain some tips advice resources and even career advice yes so osen up is fast approaching it is Thursday February 22nd it starts at 11:00 a.m. eastern uh goes for four hours it is a virtual event it is free did I mention it's free it's very free um and all online so anybody can attend this um if you want to sign up you can uh register on our website at authenticate docomo andup um you can also stream it there on the day o
f and you can stream on LinkedIn X and YouTube as well yeah join us it should be a really fascinating day full of great talks from great speakers and we're going to give you a little bit of a preview of what's to come but if you listen to our last episode you know we've been kind of trying to gather resources on training opportunities and I mean for ourselves but also for our listeners but um when we were recording our last episode we had the neat like opportunity to sit in a professional studio
at Cyber marketing con and right after I think that hours later yeah we sat down to record that event we went to a great session um by some folks at dvo about a sock appreciation day that they had put on and it seemed like a really great event where they um again yeah gathered lots of resources they had um again a field where maybe people are a little overworked not always feeling appreciated and we thought oh that sounds like ent ent we should we should do that for people in oen yes and we sho
uld do that as soon as humanly possible so we're hosting it at the end of February if we survive until then deadlines um yeah so you know there are I feel like February is just event season for ENT um I know recorded future is doing an event around the same time San CTI is going on as well um right off after our event um there's just a lot it's just the time of year that you know webinars and events are back um so there are a lot of opportunities out there actually some of the people that we'll
talk about today that are going to be at oen up are probably going to be at these other events as well um they're also former guests of our podcast some of them maybe future guests others um but you know the advantage over the podcast even though we do this on video uh we do make it accessible for people to consume Audio Only so you don't get the advantage of presentations and screenshots and videos and things like that so um it will be a multimedia Extravaganza um to Aid your many learning styl
es we've just learned so much over uh interviewing so many of these fascinating experts from all across different use cases for ENT and we just wanted to gather up some of those people and um see what everyone else could learn so yeah like you said a lot of it will be speaker presentations um some of it will be more of a demonstration so yeah I can't wait yeah so let's dive into who is doing this event we will not be the event we will be your your uh Not So Glamorous host again you know trapped
in our in our houses um but yeah let's run down uh who's speaking and and what we know uh on topics yeah so we have an incredible keynote speaker joining us um the always wonderful and very well lit Micah Hoffman um he is gonna be uh giving a speech on decoding the digital Shadows Journey from ENT novice to master with continuous learning you may know Micah Hoffman as the former president and one of the founding members of oen curious project he has since then become the owner and Lead trainer a
t my my ENT training and that my ENT training is a really incredible resource for as we said these like very few opportunities outside of conferences that exist for leveling up ENT skills and they have trainings on so many things that you can again at for every level it feels like really dive into some of these skill sets that are really hard to get a grip on following Micah is another uh stacked resume and ENT heavy hitter um that I'm sure a lot of our audience has probably heard of uh Cynthia
heatherington she's going to be speaking on professionalizing ENT through certification one of the things that we wanted to do with the event is Showcase the many paths to ENT and to you know being good at ENT um we do have we have a a panel on uh education like academic programs that are emerging around ENT um we have you know these certification programs we have online trading training uh we have you know kind of event-based training or being self-taught um and you know these speakers are kind
of showing the gamut while showing you also some skills that they can provide you but you know just to say that you know there's no one way to do it as I'm sure many enters know um and you know showcasing the resources that are available out there so getting back to Cynthia um if you don't know uh Cynthia is the founder of the osmosis Institute uh that puts on osmosis con a great uh ENT event every year um they've really expanded their program recently as well I know they're doing some you know
training courses and things like that and the run up to the event uh throughout the year if you are not familiar with what osmosis is osmosis is a global go-to source for obtaining collegial support professional development and mutually beneficial relationships that ENT professionals need to succeed she is also the CEO of heatherington group because she cannot rest uh heatherington group is a Consulting publishing and manage services and training firm they help folks with due diligence corporat
e intelligence and cyber investigations uh keeping Pace with the latest security threats and assessments they also have ENT Academy as part of this um they train investigators Security Professionals attorneys accountants military Etc um so again if you're looking for you know a training program heatherington group has you know this huge program around them and um you know really deep ENT skills to offer that as well she's also an author an educator a Renaissance woman she cannot be stopped can't
wait to hear Cynthia's talk uh you talked a little bit about spanning the gamut uh between professional and self-taught on the selftaught side of things we did want to ask uh one of our favorite former needle stack guests on and that's Jose monkey um you may know Jose monkey from his Tik toac Channel where he geocat um videos that are sent to him to a a frightening degree to a frightening degree it is important to note uh that he only does this for people who have specifically asked yes uh for
him to locate these videos he's not doxing people this is not a take in Liam nent situation no white women were harmed in the of these Tik Tok videos but we wanted to ask Jose monkey because I think at least in our experience there are now all these training opportunities and certifications and even higher education opportunities but for a lot of people working in ENT right now they came to it even though Jose monkey is not a professional they came to it in much the same way which is just I just
started playing geoguesser and uh it was cool so I did it yeah yeah um but even being in that quote unquote like amateur sphere of O Jose monkey is using some really interesting techniques to locate these photos including Data Mining and um you know some aerial and Sun things going into you know Transportation ENT and that's kind of why we wanted to have him present on some of the techniques he uses which really anyone can do and learn yeah amateur does not mean unprofessional like he's a pro a
t it um so I can't wait to see kind of the breakdown of uh how he does some of his crazy crazy capable geolocations yeah and I think what's cool about his videos too is he always uh he's very Earnest about how much time it took him whether or not he got got stuck um and I think that sometimes when you're talking about geolocation it can just seem so impossible yeah hearing some of that that like no it wasn't easy peasy it didn't take me five seconds yeah even though this is Tik Tock it's great y
es all right next up is Gillum Smith his presentation is going to be playing Duck Duck Go duck duck goose and starting your research with duck ducko I'm assuming uh he is a tradecraft advis ADV visor at fivecast very cool organization um the talk is going to center around search engines and the importance of privacy and security when beginning your research this is something we talk about a lot on the show uh primary and secondary alternatives to Google and how that can impact uh ENT searches an
d things to consider before clicking on an unfamiliar link to a website and the resources for more tools and information on this subject so great talk looking forward to gillums as well yeah five cast has also been a front of the podcast we've had Abby doton on and Abby Trent Lewis talking about um machine learning yes these were in the early days of oh my God chat GPT is here what does it mean for ENT um so Trent came on and and broke it down for us um yeah so thank you fivecast for coming on t
he show and being part of oen up okay one of the last talks we're going to have is going to be a panel on higher ed education again going into some of those new sort of opportunities that exist for when we ask people how they came to ENT um so often with our guests when we do the our kind of prep chat for needle stack is usually I would say at least 90% of them are like military that's where yeah um I was a soldier yes and which is really great that there are those opportunities within the milit
ary but now kind of growing at least in the public sector and even uh the opportunities to work with government officials and come at it from a different um angle and that includes the opportunity of degrees trainings and continuing education opportunities because I know so many people are already professional but you might be wondering like what are these you know 22 year-olds who are about to join your team with a brand new degree learning in do they have skills that you don't that you should
kind of brush up on or um are you worried about like digital Natives and their opsc capabilities so I think a lot of that will be answered in that panel yeah I think that's a great perspective especially for you know now that we're in the age that ENT is a academic path as well as as a career path it's awesome the trace Labs presentation is learned by doing non- theoretical experience in a safe environment which is very on brand for Trace Labs uh so if you are not familiar with this organization
it is awesome it is they describe themselves as crowdsourcing ENT Define missing persons uh they're a nonprofit organization and their mission is to accelerate the family reunification of missing persons while training members in the tradecraft of ENT what more could you want in the world it's lovely the trace Labs talk is going to be given by the two directors Alex Minster and Tom Hawker Alex is also involved in their Global ENT search party events which are very cool I think they just had a s
earch party capture to the flag I saw a lot of chatter on it um on social media lots of people involved lots of great conversation around it and I think just generally like a feel-good atmosphere of like what they're able to accomplish um in these kind of collective uh time sensitive experiences Alex is also really active in two cyber security groups if you're a cyber security ENT you might be interested in dc608 and black hills information security by the way for for Tom Hawker uh he is a senio
r security engineer by day and director at Trace Labs by night he also hosts the breadcrumbs podcast shout out to breadcrumbs fellow podcast in the ENT space uh he works on the search party capture the flags um and also I just noticed dearly sent over his bio for the event um but there was a quote in there that I was like this is exactly you know what we're trying to address I think with the event itself he says he sees organizations like Trace lab as a Gateway into the field of Open Source inte
lligence and owes his own professional start in the industry to his involvement with trace laabs and other hack for good nonprofits like this is one path I've seen so many like origin stories recently from like Ray Baker Tom Hawker that are talking about like they got into this stuff because they went to an event like events are important in this kind of informal and emerging space of of ENT so if you are interested in dipping your toe or jumping head first into the career of ENT really encourag
e you to come to ENT up on February 22nd it is going to be a lot of helpful information both on how to improve your skills and how to move forward in your career so so looking forward to it sign up at authentic. oen up it's gonna be great wow Tom also sounds like another person who maybe doesn't rest yeah it's like and this and also this and this and sometimes this so and some more um yeah I think one of the the thing that's cool about this event is there are lots of great conferences that if yo
u have the budget and the time you can go to like osmosis con Sans o and Summit but if you don't we are going to deliver this information to you in your home with your teacup ready yeah get in a cozy chair with a blanket and we're going to send you that info so yeah join us um at oen up we'll see you then bye [Music] a
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