Advanced Digital Threat Assessment®
8-hour session for School Safety/Threat Assessment Teams, School Administrators, Law Enforcement Agencies, and Community Partners
Max. 80 attendees for in-person / 100 attendees for remote
*Prerequisite: SST Digital Threat Assessment®
ABOUT
Advanced Digital Threat Assessment® (DTA®) builds and expands significantly on the content covered during the prerequisite DTA® training. Participants will gain concrete understanding of how to select relevant digital information found in real-life School Safety / Threat Assessment (SS/TA) data gathering scenarios. Working collaboratively through case scenarios based on real-life situations, teams navigate the social media world using both familiar and new techniques.
Trainers will share standard operating procedures as participants work towards a final practice assignment by applying tools and lessons learned. Participants will leave feeling confident in their ability to independently establish the Digital Behavioral Baseline of a subject of concern (SOC) and produce a comprehensive report.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
APPLICATIONS OF DIGITAL THREAT ASSESSMENT THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
- Advanced Boolean search operators
- The utility of Firefox and Chrome browser add-ons
- Keyword geocoding
- Ways to identify falsified images
DEEPER ONLINE RESEARCH
- Username research
- Training your brain to see past the noise and overwhelming amount of social media content, and focusing on relevant findings
- Effectively establishing a school, individual, and community Digital Behavioral Baseline
- Starting an online search to find as much relevant content as possible in a timely manner before it disappears (e.g., a bomb threat, school lockdown, cyberbullying)
YOUTH INVESTIGATIONS
- Using social media to find a missing person
- Mitigating online threat-related behaviors and anonymous threats
- Information for Law Enforcement regarding preservation and production orders
SMARTPHONE DATE AND PRESERVATION LANDSCAPE
- Examining image metadata
- Best practices for the preservation of evidence/crucial data
- Securing a device
- Reverse phone number/email searching
- Tracking capabilities and data stored
SOCIAL MEDIA RESEARCH TECHNIQUES OVERVIEW
- Geolocational specific searching – geofencing and place based social media result finding
- Using third part websites to find detailed user data
- Setting up your own dashboards: automating searches to save time
- Digital trends
- The less well-known platforms: Gab, 4chan, 8kun, and kiwi farms
THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IN SOCIAL MEDIA: A SAFE SCHOOL PERSPECTIVE
- Current best practices for teams dealing with sexting and sextortion related incidents, as well as guidelines around education and awareness
- Identification of self-harm in the remote learning environment
