Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise

Williams, Heather J.; Blum, Ilana

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“…For that reason, a good investigator should know how to specify the requests within a search engine according to the desired outcome. Services like Google or Bing support filters to refine searches, 1 and retrieve exactly the type of information we 1 https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433 are interested in. For instance, the use of '''' permits exactmatches, OR and AND act as logical operators, or * as a wildcard.…”

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The amount of data generated by the current interconnected world is immeasurable, and a large part of such data is publicly available, which means that it is accessible by any user, at any time, from anywhere in the Internet. In this respect, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a type of intelligence that actually benefits from that open natureby collecting, processing and correlating points of the whole cyberspace to generate knowledge. In fact, recent advances in technology are causing OSINT to currently evolve at a dizzying rate, providing innovative data-driven and AI-powered applications for politics, economy or society, but also offering new lines of action against cyberthreats and cybercrime. The paper at hand describes the current state of OSINT and makes a comprehensive review of the paradigm, focusing on the services and techniques enhancing the cybersecurity field. On the one hand, we analyze the strong points of this methodology and propose numerous ways to apply it to cybersecurity. On the other hand, we cover the limitations when adopting it. Considering there is a lot left to explore in this ample field, we also enumerate some open challenges to be addressed in the future. Additionally, we study the role of OSINT in the public sphere of governments, which constitute an ideal landscape to exploit open data.

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“…Given some input data, together with the application of advanced collection and analysis techniques, OSINT continuously expands the knowledge about the target. In this way, the information found feeds the gathering process again to get closer to the final goal [1].…”

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“…Die inligtingsontploffi ng sedert die negentigerjare het daar toe gelei dat geoutomatiseerde metodes aangewend moet word om inligting te versamel, te ontleed en te versprei, aangesien die hoeveelheid inligting wat beskikbaar is, sulke groot volumes opneem dat dit nie deur die mens ontleed kan word nie (Williams & Blum, 2018). Daar word byvoorbeeld daagliks omtrent 500 miljoen twiets op Twitter geplaas, 50 miljoen foto's op Instagram, 3 miljard video's word op YouTube gekyk en 3 miljoen blog artikels word geskryf (Internet Live Stats, 2019).…”

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“…Ten einde inligting uit sulke groot volumes te kan onttrek, moet daar gebruik gemaak word van Natuurlike Taalverwerkingstegnieke (Natural Language Processing of NLP), masjienleer, neurale netwerke en dergelike. Die gebruik van hierdie tegnieke plaas huidige oopbronintelligensie duidelik binne die grootdataparadigma (Dencik, et al, 2017) (Williams & Blum, 2018 (Abdollahian, et al, 2006), wat deur die VSA se Departement van Verdediging gebruik is (O'Brien, 2010). Lockheed Martin se Integrated Crisis Early Warning System (ICEWS) onttrek gestruktureerde data uit nuusberigte en het ten doel: "to develop a comprehensive, integrated, automated, generalizable, and validated system to monitor, assess, and forecast national, sub-national, and international crises in a way that supports decisions on how to allocate resources to mitigate them" (O'Brien, 2010:88).…”

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“…Toe die dissipline van oopbronintelligensie tydens die Tweede Wêreldoorlog ontwikkel is, was die aanvanklike bronne van inligting hoofsaaklik radio uitsendings, maar teen die sestigerjare het die fokus na die gedrukte media verskuif. Sedert die koms van die wêreldwye web in die negentigerjare het die klem na die web verskuif, maar sosiale media kanale het die inligtingslandskap verder verander (Williams & Blum, 2018). Mense maak nie meer uitsluitlik staat op die hoofstroom media om inligting te bekom nie, en platforms soos Facebook en Twitter het belangriker bronne van nuus geword.…”

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Oopbronintelligensie (OSINT) vir veiligheidsdoeleindes: Die ontwikkeling van ’n dataontledingspyplyn om relevante WhatsAppboodskappe te ontleed

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Oopbronintelligensie het in die laaste paar dekades die dominante intelligensiedissipline geword. Die inligtingsontploffi ng het egter daartoe gelei dat geoutomatiseerde metodes aangewend moet word om inligting uit groot hoeveelhede data, wat gereeld in ’n ongestruktureerde formaat bestaan en deurlopend gegeneer word, te onttrek. Boonop het nuwe inligtingskanale soos sosiale media ontstaan wat beteken dat nie slegs die hoofstroommedia gemonitor kan word om gebeurtenisse te identifi seer nie. Hierdie artikel bespreek hoe ’n dataversamelings en -ontledingspyplyn saamgestel kan word om inligting uit WhatsApp boodskappe, wat op groepe met hul eie sienings van veiligheidsbegrippe of probleme voorkom, en onder meer verwys na gewelddadige betogings, plaasaanvalle, grondgrype en ander misdaad in Suid-Afrika, te onttrek. Daar word bespreek hoe teks skoongemaak word en gebeurtenisse en plekname onttrek word en dan outomaties na ’n visuele en interaktiewe gebruikerskoppelvlak uitgevoer word om die voorkoms van hierdie gebeurtenisse in kleiner areas of sektore en later landswyd te kan monitor. Uitdagings en probleme word bespreek, sowel as verdere navorsingsgeleenthede, wat insluit om so ’n stelsel met veiligheidheidsreaksiemagte soos die Polisiediens se databasisse te integreer ten einde waardevolle reaksie vir die gemeenskap ten opsigte van veiligheid te weeg te bring.

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Defining Second Generation Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) for the Defense Enterprise

Cited by 55 publications

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The Not Yet Exploited Goldmine of OSINT: Opportunities, Open Challenges and Future Trends

The Not Yet Exploited Goldmine of OSINT: Opportunities, Open Challenges and Future Trends

Oopbronintelligensie (OSINT) vir veiligheidsdoeleindes: Die ontwikkeling van ’n dataontledingspyplyn om relevante WhatsAppboodskappe te ontleed

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