Open Source Intelligence Feeds (OSINT)
Threat intelligence sources can be expensive to acquire from private sources. For small and medium enterprises, spending thousands of dollars on TI data subscriptions could be unrealistic (financially disadvantageous). However, organizations can leverage public data from open sources to build intelligence. OSINT sources and feeds are a result of collective intelligence in a public fashion. Organizations, analysts, and researchers aggregate and structure their security output results and publish them as feeds for free. OSINT sources include overt feeds, search engines, usernames, email addresses, domains, social networks, IP and DNS lookups, and URLs. The list of OSINT sources is long, and the CTI team must be able to select the correct OSINT data for a specific intelligence program. Let's have a look at some benefits of OSINT.
Benefits of open source intelligence
As the name implies, open source data sources are publicly available...