OSINT

Protective Intelligence Network researches and gathers information for you applying innovative searching techniques and using state of the art technological solution, providing verifications, security due diligences, reputational analysis and investigative reports. Our Open Source Intelligence training programme is the Pathfinder XXIII course and aims to share the unique Arno Reuser RIS Open Source Intelligence OSINT Methodology to do open source research in a planned, systematic and structured way to find open source information that you would otherwise never find.
Sometimes referred to as Open Source Intelligence because of the use of publicly accessible information outlets and media sources, OSINT involves identifying, OSINT selecting, and acquiring information from publicly available sources while being able to analyze that data in order to produce actionable intelligence.

In recent history, OSINT was introduced during World War II as an intelligence tool by many nations security agencies, however, with the explosive growth of the internet communications and the huge volume of digital data produced by the public worldwide, OSINT gathering becomes a necessity for different organizations, for instance, government departments, nongovernmental organization, (NGO) organizations, and business corporations are starting to rely to a large extent on OSINT rather than private and classified information.
Protective Intelligence Network research and gather information for you using state of the art technological solution, and particular searching techniques, providing verifications, security due diligences, reputational analysis and investigative reports.
The software gave a definite speed advantage, but the mind of a good OSINT investigator can come up with some brilliant comparisons and open source solutions that can be just as effective and run several levels deeper when it comes to full analysis of a target profile.

He global leaders of the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) market are Dassault Systemes SA (France), Expert System (Italy), NICE Ltd.(Israel), Intrinsic Technologies (US), Verint (US), Digimind (US), Datalkz (UAE), Palantir Technologies (US), Thales SA (France), CybelAngel (France), KB Crawl SAS (France), SAIL LABS Technology GmbH (Austria), and Recorded Future (US).
Google, Yandex, Bing, and Exalead are search engines that are used in backend as a source, while Shodan is also a search engine but not the conventional one and we already discussed a bit about it earlier and we will discuss in detail about the same in this chapter later.

From identifying which new vulnerabilities are being actively exploited to intercepting threat actor chatter” about an upcoming attack, open source intelligence enables security professionals to prioritize their time and resources to address the most significant current threats.
This specific type of OSINT is called as WEBINT by many, though it seems a bit ambiguous as there is a difference between the internet and web (discussed in Chapter 1). It might look like that by focusing on a specific type we are missing a huge part of OSINT, which would have been correct few decades earlier but today where most of the data are digitized this line of difference is slowly thinning.

The open source intelligence market holds some of the major key players like, Palantir Technologies (U.S.), Expert System (Italy), Exalead Dassault Systemes (France), Thales Group (France), CybelAngel (France), Intrinsic Technologies (U.S.), SAIL LABS Technology GmbH (Austria), Digimind (U.S.), KB Crawl SAS (France), Verint (U.S.), Recorded Future (U.S.), Datalkz (UAE).
She has given many presentations about OSINT research and data investigation as a librarian and now as an InfoSec professional. Includes search tools to help you find public records, verify facts, search social media sites, reverse search images, uncover government data and more.