This book will serve as a reference guide for anyone that is responsible for the collection of online content.

This book will also improve your skills to acquire information online from both the regular Internet as well as the hidden web through its two sub-layers: the deep web and the dark web.

It reflects the changing intelligence needs of our clients in both the public and private sector, as well as the many areas we have been active in over the past two years.

... OSINT gathering, and explore OSINT's benefits in today's digital age. 2.1. OSINT. Definition. As we have already mentioned, OSINT refers to all the information available for public consumption, including online and offline resources. You ...

As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text mining, web crawling, and other algorithms that have led to advances in methods that can largely automate ...

This book offers an authoritative and accessible guide on how to conduct Open Source Intelligence investigations from data collection to analysis to the design and vetting of OSINT tools.

... resources they need, whether that's social media platforms, specialized search engines, databases with data leaks, government resources – you name it. For professionals in the security industry, the OSINT framework is an absolute boon ...

This report describes the evolution of open source intelligence, defines open source information and the intelligence cycle, and parallels with other intelligence disciplines, along with methods used and challenges of using off-the-shelf ...

In the information age, it is critical that we understand the implications and exposure of the activities and data documented on the Internet.

In this book, he shares his methods in great detail. Each step of his process is explained throughout sixteen chapters of specialized websites, application programming interfaces, and software solutions.