OSINT sources What are they and what are they for?

You may not be familiar with the term OSINT information sources or basically OSINT fonts.

The Anglo-Saxon acronym OSINT refers to Open Source Intelligence or Open Source Intelligence.

Information Sources OSINT, is a definition coined and widely used among military, police and intelligence personnel of government agencies.

Let's see what precisely the term OSINT applies to, what sources of information form it and what it has to do with finding information on the Internet and the deep Internet.

Discover OSINT's information sources

OSINT information sources refer to any declassified information that is publicly available on the Internet for free.

Let's see what wikipedia says about open source intelligence:

Thus, OSINT is precisely the opposite of classified information sources or closed payment information sources.

So we can say that any Blog, corporate website, online newspapers, social networks, forums, even free databases, constitute the bulk of these sources of information.

A clarification: the concept of OSINT information sources is not linked to the concept of free software such as Linux or Drupal or Joomla.

 

So why create this term, you may be wondering?

Well, in general, because the intelligence agencies of the Anglo-Saxon governments have a own vocabulary enriched with INT terms, as an example:

And those acronyms have been extended to the rest of the agencies, I imagine through international organizations such as NATO and Interpol.

Recapitulation, OSINT information sources are freely accessible, free and declassified sources of information.. Come on, they have no mystery, since practically all sources of information on the Internet are, except for payment. But they have an important nuance:

These are sources that are used to make information, make decisions,

And as such, the relevance given to them is maximum or at least very relevant.

The problem of OSINT sources versus conventional information sources

OSINT's information sources are open and free, but like other Internet sources, they are not easy to find and use.

Actually, the most valuable belong to the deep internet and, as a consequence, its content is left out of search engines and it is extremely easy for you to lose much of the currently available public information using Google or without knowing that it exists, therefore do not do it. try looking for it.

Open source intelligenceIn this way, it combines the information sources of the deep Internet and the superficial Internet.

For an intelligence organization, this classification between OSINT and non-OSINT fonts serves to distinguish which are their free fonts from paid ones and nothing else.

Even so, as we already mentioned, given the size of the deep internet, it is extremely simple that, even when we have defined our set of open sources, we lack much of the available information. This is due to the impossibility of entering all the information manually since it is impossible for us to know all the sources of information that exist.

Then, It is important to use tools to access recognized sources and locate those that we do not know.

How can I get started with OSINT sources?

Examples of what open source intelligence or OSINT is for us we have in the answers to questions such as:

Information to answer these questions can be found on the Deep Web.

The hard part is locating the correct sources and including them in your set of open sources of information.

Regardless, using unstructured data that needs to be filtered and retained can be practically impossible without the right tools, as we already mentioned.

Even if the information sources are well identified, extracting what interests us is not so easy.

Collecting data and information at scale, analyzing and visualizing it for effective use, often requires the use of analytics software licenses, subscriptions, and a higher budget.

This ignorance prevents many people, institutions and companies from venturing into the Deep Web and processing OSINT sources.

Despite everything, the benefits can be enormous, especially considering that these entry barriers can give us some advantage.

In all cases, if:

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I hope you enjoy the next 60 minutes as much as we do.