Osint

Subsequently published as “The Importance of Open Source Intelligence to the Military,” in Loch K. Johnson and James J. Wirtz (eds.), Strategic Intelligence: Windows into a Secret World (Cary, NC: Roxbury, 2004), pp. 112-119.

2018

One of the most basic functions of the state is to ensure the security to it and its citizens. Significant elements are: perseverance, political independence, territorial integrity and maintenance proper level of life quality. Today’s intelligence, which is part of the structures of security organs, belongs to the elite part of the special forces performing strategic goals. Therefore, acquiring the information by OSINT is important not only for the institution itself but also for citizens. OSINT is one of the means by which security is provided to the internal and external states. Open source information is one of the agents of economic, political, military, etc. Books, periodicals, statistical yearbooks, social networking sites and daily newspapers belong to the basic, verified sources. In globalized world, OSINT has particular importance because, due to the obtained information, the state can take defensive action. In this article, the author pointed out the use of OSINT in the military diagnosis.

PsycEXTRA Dataset

Our age's increasingly voluminous open-source intelligence (OSINT) sheds light on issues of the day for all-source analysts, covert collectors, and policymakers, but have we done enough to exploit its potential? My short answer is "No," and here's why I think so. Collecting intelligence these days is at times less a matter of stealing through dark alleys in a foreign land to meet some secret agent than one of surfing the Internet under the fluorescent lights of an office cubicle to find some open source. The world is changing with the advance of commerce and technology. Mouse clicks and online dictionaries today often prove more useful than stylish cloaks and shiny daggers in gathering intelligence required to help analysts and officials understand the world. Combined with stolen secrets, diplomatic reports, and technical collection, open sources constitute what one former deputy director of intelligence termed the "intricate mosaic" of intelligence.1

INTL 502 Collection DR. Patrick Barton "A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself." ~Jospeh Pulitzer During this course we analyzed a number of topics involved in intelligence collection and the key role it plays in the intelligence cycle. We discussed the various collection disciplines; signal intelligence (SIGINT), measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT), imagery intelligence (IMINT), human intelligence (HUMINT), open source intelligence (OSINT), and geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) which are used to protect our nation by building databases on possible threats. Once the hierarchal issues are identified and addressed by which pose the greatest threat to our sovereignty, our INTs can focus their resources on the most important target. We touched on legacy systems of various INTs and discovered what could be improved and

Open Source Intelligence Investigation: From Strategy to Implementation, 2016

This chapter looks at the context, application and benefits of OSINT for use in decision making, as an integrated part of the wider intelligence mix and, as an essential component within the overall Intelligence Cycle. OSINT is a growing and increasingly critical aspect in decision making by LEAs—and has been even before the burgeoning use of social media brought open source to the fore. But, its full integration into the wider intelligence mix, as well as into an overarching information governance framework, is essential to ensure efficient and effective contribution to usable intelligence able to support better informed decision making. Fundamentally, unless the system in which OSINT is used as interoperable as the system is in which decision-making is taking place, the application and value of OSINT will be far less effective, efficient and meaningful. This chapter addresses OSINT in the context of the Intelligence Process and the need to resolve the challenges and issues surrounding the integration and use of OSINT into the Intelligence Cycle. It further discusses how an overarching information governance framework may support OSINT for decision making within the wider Intelligence Mix.

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), as a field of information gathering from open sources, is unintentionally pervasive in our lives. Its various methods make an indispensable contribution, not only to the work of individuals, but also to that of economic actors and even public organisations, including government bodies, responsible for security. However, their application also presents a number of advantages, but also a number of disadvantages. It has evolved beyond the use of traditional open sources and is closely linked to cyberspace and the various ICT solutions based on it. At the same time, their spread and their dynamic changes have a direct impact on OSINT methods. Taking into account the changes, caused by the effects of continuous development, the paper aims at reflecting on the boundaries of open source information gathering as a category.

2024

With the expansion of technological capabilities and the emergence of social media, traditional evidence is significantly updated and supplemented by digital evidence. Modern information technologies are actively applied in all spheres of life: economy, law enforcement and judicial activities, management, medicine, etc. A significant amount of information is being digitized on a daily basis through the creation of relevant electronic registers and the construction of a digital state. The war has posed significant challenges not only to citizens and the state, but also to the existing global order and security system, demonstrating its limitations in preventing and resolving armed conflicts. It has also revealed the shortcomings of existing investigative and judicial procedures, prompting public (or, as they are called abroad, non-governmental) organizations to take the initiative in the search for justice. However, the interaction and regulation of these organizations remains comprehensive. These inevitable processes require a change in traditional approaches to the tools, means, methods and techniques of collecting, examining, evaluating and using evidence for the purpose of detecting, investigating, prosecuting and preventing criminal offenses. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the growing dependence of investigations on digital evidence in modern investigations, especially in times of conflict and war, also due to the inaccessibility and danger of access to the scene of the crime. The practice of combating crime convincingly shows that without modern, appropriate information support for criminal investigations, it is almost impossible to combat criminal manifestations. At the same time, this also raises a number of legal problems due to the legislative unpreparedness of criminal procedure for such digital challenges, the lack of proper legal regulation of interaction with digital evidence, and other challenges related to the dynamic nature of digital data, the importance of preserving its integrity, and the consequences of technological progress on legal standards and practices. The purpose of this chapter is therefore to consider certain aspects of such problems and to suggest possible options for the procedural behavior of participants in criminal proceedings with respect to the documentation of

The world today abounds in open information to an extent unimaginable to intelligence officers of " the Cold War.

MEST Journal, 2021

The study of the experience of using open sources of information in the interests of intelligence-by-intelligence services studied the methodology and organization of the use of open sources of information in the interests of intelligence and information security of the country. Methods of collecting, analyzing, and processing information are considered, sources for information use are clarified. Information security is an integral part of national security and is closely linked to open-source intelligence. Nowadays, this type of intelligence is relevant because sometimes the ability to obtain intelligence through closed sources is significantly limited. The information obtained in this way should be carefully checked and analyzed, compared with the information obtained through intelligence and vice versa. The considered advantages of open sources of information are that the risk of failure of the agent is excluded or considerable means and efforts for the search of such are saved. ...