The study presents the possibilities of using and adapting specific tools for the needs of research on defense and security. It seems that the full potential of the existing possibilities in the field of techniques and tools supporting the methods of conducting research in this particular and difficult area has not yet been used to its full potential. The author is a PhD student at the National Defense University in the field of social sciences in the discipline of defense sciences. The presented method was successfully used in the implementation of the dissertation entitled Information security management of a special purpose military unit, which made it possible to collect representative research material when it seemed impossible to achieve it due to the existing conditions that accompanied the subject matter and such a difficult research area.