Investigators can often be reactive and have a hard time seeing targets and evidence that is out of view. This presentation will focus on the art of proactive investigations. We will focus on what an investigator's mindset should be, how to understand their targets, devise and execute a plan to gain evidence, resulting in successful … Continue reading Being the Pro in Proactive Investigations

Join a team of experts from NW3C as they provide thoughtful and detailed answers to the intelligence analysis questions you submit. Click here to submit questions regarding intelligence analysis skills, information collection, or general comments of analytic tradecraft and a panel of NW3C experts will provide answers during this live session. Presented by: Randy Stickley, Intelligence Specialist, … Continue reading Intelligence Analysis: Asked and Answered

This webinar will demonstrate what Uber is and the various lines of business, the information each trip or delivery generates, how investigators can obtain that data, how that data can be useful in a criminal investigation, and trends Uber has observed. The objective is that law enforcement officers, analysts, and prosecutors in attendance are able … Continue reading Uber Resources for Law Enforcement

The dark web has the star quality and luster of a Hollywood movie, but in reality, it’s a den of inequity operated by the technically sophisticated. The more “Googleized” we’ve become as investigators and researchers, the less we understand what’s going on behind the scenes and how to operate in this nefarious world. This webinar … Continue reading Understanding the Dark Web

Criminal investigators and analysts need to understand how it is possible for people to conceal and obfuscate their identity and location on the Internet.  Two primary methods are through the use of proxies and virtual private networks (VPNs). This ability to hide one’s identity and location on the Internet can be both a challenge and … Continue reading What Investigators Need to Know about Hiding on the Internet: Proxies and VPNs

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email. Join us to explore IoT through the optics of the investigator and the examiner. Let's examine the most popular IoT technology, essential planning in any case, how to identify and search for relevant technologies at search or crime scenes, what … Continue reading Overview of IoT for Investigators and Examiners

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email. Remaining anonymous and protected online is key to any web intelligence investigation. With social media platforms becoming more efficient at finding and closing fictitious accounts, creating and operating avatars for online investigations is becoming more difficult. This presentation will give … Continue reading Conducting Secure Online Investigations in 2022

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email. Today’s law enforcement agencies are facing a financial crimes epidemic. Millions of consumers are victims of credit card fraud and ID theft each year resulting in the loss of billions. Human traffickers, fuel thieves, and drug dealers are laundering money … Continue reading Identify, Investigate, Recover Digital Cash, and Prosecute Money Laundering Crimes

This training is intended for U.S. Criminal Justice Practitioners. Please register using your agency-issued email. Child exploitation cases often involve analyzing digital device storage drives to reconstruct user activities. While much can be learned from disk analysis, Random Access Memory (RAM) is a particularly rich source of potential evidence related to user activities. Specifically, reconstruction … Continue reading Reconstructing User Activities from a Memory Dump

The webinar will introduce students to cellular network technology and how to correctly identify the cellular provider from a phone number. Search warrant language will be discussed on how to obtain all available cellular records. Various types of cellular records will be shown along with identifying and analyzing the cell site location information. Different types … Continue reading Using Cellular Records to Solve Crimes