![]() IT security departments are increasingly tasked with performing OSINT operations on their own organizations to shore up operational security. OSINT is in many ways the mirror image of operational security (OPSEC), which is the security process by which organizations protect public data about themselves that could, if properly analyzed, reveal damaging truths. ![]() Open source in this context doesn't refer to the open-source software movement, although many OSINT tools are open source instead, it describes the public nature of the data being analyzed. OSINT operations, whether practiced by IT security pros, malicious hackers, or state-sanctioned intelligence operatives, use advanced techniques to search through the vast haystack of visible data to find the needles they're looking for to achieve their goals-and learn information that many don't realize is public. Open source intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of collecting information from published or otherwise publicly available sources.
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