Demystifying Data Dumps
2SANS OSINT Summit 2023
Demystifying Data Dumps
Speaker: Chris Brenner, Senior Director, 221B Partners
Investigations can often involve acquiring, analyzing and reporting on large volumes of data from a variety of sources and in many different formats. Frequently we are tasked with making sense of giant CSV files downloaded from government agencies, provided with subpoena productions from online providers or have otherwise acquired a large volume of information that needs to be analyzed and organized. Learn how to utilize common tools such as Microsoft Excel, Google Drive/Workspace, Google Earth and other programs, scripts and techniques to organize and interpret data gathered from open source, commercial databases, client data and other resources. Examples of real world case studies involving these skills in practice include creating custom maps from geocoded data, cataloguing tens of thousands of lines of IP address data from multiple sources, extracting specific desired information from gigabytes of text data and making sense of data from a variety of sources.
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