Open Source Intelligence Methods and Tools
A Practical Guide to Online Intelligence
Book Description:
Apply Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) techniques, methods, and tools to acquire information from publicly available online sources to support your intelligence analysis. Use the harvested data in different scenarios such as financial, crime, and terrorism investigations as well as performing business competition analysis and acquiring intelligence about individuals and other entities. This book will also improve your skills to acquire information online from both the regular Internet as well as the hidden web through its two sub-layers: the deep web and the dark web.
What You’ll Learn
- Identify intelligence needs and leverage a broad range of tools and sources to improve data collection, analysis, and decision making in your organization
- Use OSINT resources to protect individuals and enterprises by discovering data that is online, exposed, and sensitive and hide the data before it is revealed by outside attackers
- Gather corporate intelligence about business competitors and predict future market directions
- Conduct advanced searches to gather intelligence from social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter
- Understand the different layers that make up the Internet and how to search within the invisible web which contains both the deep and the dark webs
Who This Book Is For
Penetration testers, digital forensics investigators, intelligence services, military, law enforcement, UN agencies, and for-profit/non-profit enterprises