Spyder Forensics DarkNet Investigator (Live On-Site – IACIS Training Event 2025)

This Spyder Forensics class delivers unique content which is not offered anywhere else. The course material is supported by real-world examples and incidents. This course will provide the student with the understanding of how to accomplish an effective investigation of Darknet sites and DarkWeb users. The course will allow law enforcement to increase their investigative skills to meet the new challenges offered by the anonymity of the Darknet.

The course will use adult learning principles of presentation and demonstration of the techniques. Students are strongly encouraged to follow along during the course on the provided classroom laptops. The course is strictly restricted to Government and Police as it contains new and innovative methodology and techniques.

Eligibility:
STRICTLY Law enforcement, Government, Armed forces and Police ONLY
This course is designed for government and police investigators, to understand where to start their Darknet investigations and how to operate in this new environment. Investigators engaged in online investigations of any kind and those using open source (OSINT) analytics will benefit greatly from this course. Crime analysts, National security investigators, crimes against children investigators, drug investigators will especially benefit. This is an advanced-level course presented from an investigator’s point of view. Those with a non-technical background will also benefit from the material presented. This is not a general lecture course and is for experienced investigators to learn advanced topics.

Throughout the weeklong course topics will include:

• The Darknet/Dark Web, what it is and what it is not
• To Tor or not to Tor
• Technology and techniques to locate a suspect on the Darknet
• Cryptocurrency and its use in the Darknet
• Going Undercover on the Darknet
• Exploring the other Darknets
• Meta data use on the Internet in Images and documents
• Darkweb legend building

Course Price: $2,695

Event Hotel 

Caribe Royale Hotel, 8101 World Center Drive, Orlando, Florida 32821 (USA).

You can find information about hotel booking and special pricing  HERE

About the Trainer

Todd is a globally recognized expert on Internet Investigations. He has 25 years of law enforcement experience. As a Detective Sergeant he supervised the Financial and Cybercrime units for the Reno, Nevada Police Department starting the first cybercrime unit in the State of Nevada. As the Director of High Tech Crime Training for SEARCH he managed a team of trainers teaching U.S. Law enforcement nationwide about technology crime investigation. He has been awarded a Patent and has designed and built software. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (ACFE) and an IACIS Certified Forensic Computer Examiner. He writes and speaks the topic of cybercrime and is co-author of Investigating Internet Crimes, An introduction to solving crimes in cyberspace. He is the featured Internet crime expert in the movie “Deepweb” directed by Alex Winter. Todd presents to government, law enforcement and investigators around the world, both independently, and at events such as ISS world training events. He is a lecturer for Interpol, the Canadian Police College, and the University of Nevada, Reno.