OSINT Explained

Overview

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a methodology for collecting and analyzing publicly available information to used in an intelligence context. The sources can be from social media, websites, news articles, etc.

Intelligence Lifecycle

Planning and Direction

• Who are we going to target?

• What are we going to target?

• Why are we going to target them?

• When are we going to do it?

Collection

• Start gathering information

• Gather Metadata from an image

• Gather names from an organization

Processing and Exploitation

• Take the gathered data and interpret/process it

Analysis and Production

• Analyze the data and put it into a readable form

• Make ties between each data point and provide why they connect

Dissemination and Integration

• Present the found information to the client and make sure they can understand it

The cycle is never ending and doesn't need to be done in any particular order