Assessing and strengthening organizational security with OSINT

An organization’s cybersecurity posture is only as strong as its weakest link. External infrastructure, which includes web-facing assets such as websites, email servers, and cloud services, often presents multiple vectors for cyber attacks. Understanding and enhancing these aspects of your organization’s digital presence is critical. OSINT plays a vital role in this endeavor, allowing for a complete analysis of probable vulnerabilities and threat vectors.

The process of assessing and strengthening your networks involves identifying vulnerabilities in web applications, email servers, DNS configurations, and other public-facing assets, and then implementing measures to mitigate these risks.

Identifying potential vulnerabilities

Here’s a quick list of tools that should be used to identify any vulnerabilities in your infrastructure:

• Web applications and websites: Web-facing applications...