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Includes Jane's water craft including international journals, dissertations, book Information Group material as well ships , the other focused on news reviews, and the Social Science as BBC transcripts. The latter is include FBIS information.

Flat fee or actual cost pricing. Flat fee, actual cost, or pay as you Flat fee, actual cost, or pay as you go credit card pricing. There are distinct advantages in high-quality commercial information contracting a searcher who has detailed relevant to their action responsibilities. In the case of Factiva this is less cost of mistakes or unnecessary retrievals, vital but can still make a big difference in all commercial online premium services both the success of the searchers, and the should be searched by those staff with cost of the searches.

Copy the results into a Word document. Add pagination. Add a title page and a blank table of contents page. Sort the items into larger categories e. Political, Military, Economic and label the categories as "Heading 1". Then go through the document label each individual headline as "Heading 2". These headings are choices in the style bar at the upper left that generally says "Normal".

If desired, use the Replace function to find and make bold all of the original search terms. Work identifies just a few sources of common continues to progress on a concept of interest to military commanders and their operations for establishing broad NATO staff.

There are many more than those listed access to such sources at the most here. Int'l Affairs Online www. It is generally understood as commercial booksellers and subscription that information whose distribution is not agencies. Overt Human Experts and Observers The ultimate open source is a human expert or human observer with direct experience. In many places of the world, Africa, for example, it is not possible to obtain published information on specific locations or conditions.

For many topics, even those with great quantities of published information, it is not possible to find exactly what is needed even when the time and money is available to collect, process, and analyze all available published information.

The human expert is often the most efficient truth. Unless the information the commander or his staff. These can both be accessed at www. The second means is through professional associations such as listed in the International Directory of Associations published by Gale Research, or as found through a copernic. The third means is by doing a Factiva. Last, and often the least efficient, is through a labor-intensive series of telephone calls to various known government agencies or official points of contact.

As a general rule, it is best to do a comprehensive professional search for international experts with the most current knowledge, rather than relying on the in-house focal points or whomever might be casually known to in-house points of contact. Commercial Imagery The commercial imagery industry continues of a number of satellites that offer militarily to mature with the launching in recent years significant capabilities. Unbridled but also likely to be de rigueur in the future.

Their provider. This provides a host of options products will be available to whoever has a regarding cooperation with broader coalition credit card. While this will bring new partners who do not have access to NATO capabilities to friend and foe alike, classified information.

The table indicates the minimum resolution in meters at which the target can be detected, identified, described, or analyzed. No source specifies which definition of resolution pixel-size or white-dot is used, but the table is internally consistent.

Detection: location of a class of units, object, or activity of military interest. General identification: determination of general target type. Precise identification: discrimination within a target type of known types. Technical Analysis: detailed analysis of specific equipment. Dehqanzada and Ann M. Washington D. Because they limited by poor revisit times to specific have an active sensor, they can image a targets.

This factor is mitigated by the target in day or night, in any weather, through clouds and smoke. While current systems are capable of 8-meter resolution, the next few years will see commercial SAR satellites providing 1-meter resolution. These systems will be able to provide a dependable source of militarily significant commercial imagery to NATO forces as well as to our adversaries. A number of NATO nations purchase commercial imagery to support their own national imagery requirements.

In many cases, these images can be redistributed Figure 5 - Comparative imagery resolutions freely. Until that time, the vast archive of Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR imagery commercial remote sensing images remains capability is improving significantly.

SAR a rich source of historical data that can be imagery relies upon the analysis of a signal acquired fast and at low cost.

Historical transmitted in the microwave part of the data is optimized for mission planning, electromagnetic spectrum and the mapping and humanitarian support interpretation of its return signal. Unlike operations when detailed knowledge of electro-optical systems, these sensors are not infrastructure is essential.

Defining Source Access Requirements Dangers of Pay-per-View It is a relatively easy endeavor to identify are great pressures to place all information private information sources that can support acquired onto web-based dissemination the information needs of an OSINT systems. To place information directly manner.

Finally, ad hoc information onto servers without the knowledge and requirements may be addressed with the consent of the information provider is a acquisition of single copies of key violation of copyright laws. An option to reduce costs is to determine the As a general rule, there are few information information needs of the organization based sources that are required by all members of a on communities of interests.

Some staff. Restricting access to some sources information is required by all staff and will increase the range of open sources that merits a general site license.

Careful audience. The purchase of a scarce resources. This means that third party thinking tools: modeling and simulation and software producers desiring to have their structured argument analysis. Section C offerings work with another major product, functionalities combine tools for the must undertake lengthy and often expensive automated pre-processing of data once it is negotiations in order to be shown the digital, and with tools for converting hard proprietary API.

Software today is still not copy and multi-lingual or multi-media "plug and play", and it is unlikely to become information into a single digital standard. A the open source intelligence analyst or the major obstacle to progress is the existing action officer working with open source industry practice of concealing and intelligence. SERVICES Collection Services Collection services include online collection electoral or other forms of polling; private searchers that specialize in Internet, deep investigations and human intervention web and premium commercial online source services "boots on the ground" ; and aerial exploitation ; off-line grey literature or surveillance or reconnaissance services.

As a general rule, the analysis services can be "mixed and best value is found through the hiring of matched" to obtain precisely the desired single individual experts with no overhead, results. The very worst value comes when rather than through broad contracts with an organization is hired because of a organizations that then adds a substantial fee convenient contract, they do not have a for their considerable overhead expenses.

Web-site analysis reference to citation analysis and familiarity is another tool, which can be applied to vet with their product set. This is best the capabilities of a potential information accomplished through the identification of vendor. Since many intelligence cycle that will yield good value requirements that are urgent for the when applied. The open source intelligence commander and their staff may not qualify process is about discovery, discrimination, for nor be appropriate for secret collection distillation, and dissemination—the 4 Ds methods, the open source intelligence cycle Figure 7.

This analytical approach is is in fact vital to NATO planning and applied to the traditional single source operations. As will be seen in the following intelligence cycle. A good understanding of discussion, OSINT is an emerging discipline the open source intelligence cycle makes it and the emphasis will often be on informal possible to access and harness private sector coordination rather than formal tasking.

Open Command. The subordinate commanders for source intelligence is not necessarily the Civil Affairs, Public Relations, Military responsibility of, or available from, national- Police, and Combat Engineering may often level intelligence organizations. While the be the best channels for seeking out OSINT, intelligence staff typically acts as the staff and can comprise an informal advisory principal for OSINT activities, other staffs council to the commander.

On Organizations. This is national-level intelligence organizations particularly true in deployed areas. Others organizations, have deep direct may have selected units that can be knowledge that can be drawn upon called upon, but have not yet mastered through informal coordination. The established Article 5 Operations have very diplomatic missions of the various substantial human mass migration and member nations are often the best ethnic conflict aspects as witnessed source of OSINT, at little cost, if they during Operation Allied Force.

These are approached by one of their nationals issues are often best understood by acting in an official capacity on behalf religious organizations. Organizations of the commander. Such missions are such as The Papal Nuncio and the local under no direct obligation to respond, Opus Dei, the B'nai Brith, the Islamic but informal coordination may yield World Foundation, and other equivalent good results.

Many of the perceptions member nations have Chambers of Commerce and these often have Requirements Definition The greatest challenge for the commander and intentions, and they must articulate, in will be the establishment and maintenance the narrowest possible way, precisely what of a rigorous and disciplined process for they want to know and why. The defining the requirements to be addressed commander's operational intent is as vital to through open sources.

The common the intelligence professional as it is to the attitudes of "tell me everything about operations professional. Only by everything" or "if I have to tell you what I understanding the context and direction of need to know you are not doing your job" the commander's requirements, can a truly represent unworkable direction. Each commander e. Civil Affairs to go forward. OSINT is should distinguish between their tailored highly relevant to both kinds of intelligence intelligence requirements in support of their support.

The commander and their staff commanders, evaluated, and the results of must digest, evaluate, and provide feedback the evaluation passed directly to the staff on all received intelligence, whether open or element responsible for coordinating OSINT classified.

As open source intelligence is support to the commander. Open sources are used to staffs to determine if that intelligence need compliment the existing classified can be satisfied through those resources intelligence and can be collected on a organic to the intelligence staffs, those specific area. OSINT-derived products are resources that the staff can access, if an RFI created to answer a specific intelligence to nations is required, or if a combination of need to which open sources are best these approaches is required.

While RFIs from intelligence users typically generate collection efforts, Collection requires the translation of an Table 4 illustrates the three types of intelligence need into an intelligence producer generated intelligence collection requirement — an action plan to answer that and production requirements. A collection strategy is developed to tap available sources.

Optimal sources are These three categories outline the way in selected and the information is collected. In the absence of produced. The range of open information national intelligence production shared with that is available both freely and NATO, open source collection may be the commercially will swamp the analytical best means with which to begin to build an capacity of any intelligence staff regardless intelligence picture for the command.

Therefore, effective management must include the avoidance of production Less dramatic changes to the international without a specific purpose. Seasonal changes in a particular intelligence, producer-generated collection region may lead to population migration. An analyst is often best placed to determine Chapter II reviewed private sector what product is required to address the past information offerings.

Chapter III focuses needs of the intelligence user. Proactive on the methods to be applied by any NATO collection and management to make unit to exploit those offerings, while not effective use of emerging information recommending any specific source, should be encouraged. This could include software, or service. What is important is the tailoring of a newly available public that every NATO unit is conscious of the report that addresses an established overall process, the alternative means for intelligence need into a format of use to an obtaining and exploiting OSINT, and the intelligence user.

Figure 8 below is Rapidly changing events can drive the provided a high-level view of the elements production of new products. It is vital parent commands and its subordinate, that the OSINT professional, known in some adjacent, and higher commands, but should governments as Open Source Officers then extend further, throughout the parent OSO , focuses initially on "knowing who government and into the national private knows" — the ability to rapidly identify sector.

Rather than having a stale open highest standards of overt decorum and source product to draw upon, the ability to propriety. This must include a firm grasp of rapidly direct collection on an issue, identify both the private sector's rights and the leading experts on the field and either obligations with respect to copyright and the draw upon their most recent work or contact protection of intellectual property, and them directly is the most effective use of an NATO's concerns with regard to OPSEC.

OSINT capability. Collection Discipline There is no faster way for an OSO to lose provides a rich environment for unbridled his commander's respect than to try to do too research.

OSINT managers must ensure that much, and end up taking too long to produce their staffs are aware of the degree of detail simple answers. Time management, and a required for each OSINT product being very disciplined approach to the art and prepared. The Internet and commercial science of OSINT collection, is the key to premium online sources are seductive to the every success.

Within any OSINT effort, time spent in collection is always at the expense The ever-increasing array of open sources of analysis. Ensure an understanding of commander's intent. Use search tools, rapidly identify top ten sites and review.

Create Internet Table for future use and for customer's reference. Use fee sources, identify top 20 items for exploitation. Read, understand, evaluate, and structure collected information. Carefully create an analytical summary, table of contents, and slides. OSINT managers should ensure to the all-source effort. This reference open source collection. Collection efforts aid will serve as the starting point for can be reduced if time spent in the subsequent analytical tasks.

Collection Issues There are several collection issues that discretion is part of what they are always surface whenever commanders and selling. It is a sector parties e. External Networking. Nuances of Open Source Collection The Internet, although it will never be a and more out-of-area as well as civil completely trustworthy source for stability scenarios, OSINT will become a information, has become the de facto C4I much more important element of the all- backbone for everyone other than the source intelligence solution.

It is vital that military. It is essential that our intelligence, every NATO commander and relevant staff operations and logistics staffs develop new member begin now to understand and plan doctrine and new methods for fully for their OSINT needs.

The fee-for-service commercial online databases, intelligence professionals should be and it is vital that no NATO element falls available to reinforce the commander and prey to this illusion. A robust OSINT capability principal that should manage his own should include the understanding of and the collection effort. Some are best for current news, others for Intelligence staffs should enable all staff legal records, and others for access to elements to access relevant open sources as conference proceedings and dissertations.

Intelligence staffs should serve to facilitate the flow of OSINT According to some OSINT experts, only a and open source material while providing fraction of known knowledge is available source evaluation and guidance.

Applying online, either through the Internet or through this process will enable many potential RFIs the commercial online databases. Grey to be self-satisfied and thus not submitted. Finally, there is the human element. First and open collaboration, rather than a repository foremost are internal subject-matter-experts. Second are the repositories of information that have been private sector experts who have achieved a professional selected, evaluated, indexed, favorable reputation based on their proven abstracted, structured, and made available in record of accomplishments and publications.

As so much of when "knowing who knows" and being able OSINT is not in digital form, hands-on to "mix and match" niche providers of human translation and evaluation are the varying pieces of the OSINT solution is most important part of processing and essential, it is in the processing and exploitation. Without a dedicated set of automation tools to facilitate the processing of open source Open sources, just like clandestine or covert information, OSINT production will sources, require the application of human continue to be reliant upon ad hoc software judgment in order to sort out the important solutions and rigorous analytical effort.

While In the production of OSINT reports, it is it is never wise, nor an acceptable practice, crucial that the reader be aware of what is to attribute as fact intelligence solely known and what is being speculated about. Application Of strategic value Civil Allies This is not always true for open sources. It is also helpful when processing open source or classified information manually If at all possible, the original sourcing to have in mind a clear model of analysis information should never be separated from that distinguishes between military, civil, the open source reporting.

A complete and geographic information, and also description of where the open source between the levels of analysis—strategic, information was acquired, the identification operational, tactical, and technical—for the of the source, the timing of both the threat changes depending on the level of production of the open source information analysis.

This also helps the analyst to and the timing of its acquisition—these all recognize gaps in their collected comprise fully half the value of an OSINT information, and the relationship between product. Without the sourcing pedigree, the different types of information. One such open source substance must be considered model is provided in Figure 10 above for suspect and of minimal value to the all- illustrative purposes. It is also facilitating other forms of human Is there merely an E-mail address or a interaction across borders which two full name, address and telephone decades ago were unimaginable.

The number. Sam Spade www. The online tools to validate a web-site. See Web-site information into the all-source intelligence Analysis Guide on the following page. The standard criteria for evaluation of web-sites are as follows: Accuracy. The OSINT analyst is able to compare information provided from the web-site with validated all-source intelligence.

Benchmarking open sources against validated all-source intelligence assists in assessing the likely accuracy of other information Figure 10 - Web analysis tools contained on the web-site to be used to address intelligence gaps.

Do other media cite that web-site in their reporting? Has the web-site been attacked electronically or Relevancy. There is a common mistake by users of social media accounts, for example, Facebook, to link a phone number to their Facebook profile. Even on the Facebook search, you could find personal numbers if the privacy is moderate. Other than that, user-supplied databases of phone numbers like truecaller. There is a very famous tool PhoneInfoga to scan phone numbers using only public resources.

At first, the main focus is on gathering necessary information like country, area, carrier, and line type on any international phone numbers with excellent accuracy. After that, it tries to find the VoIP provider or search for footprints on search engines to try to identify the owner. The Phoneinfoga tutorial is given here.

If you know a website of a person owns that you are investigating, then it will quickly reveal important information related to it, such as the operating system being used, software version, personal contact info, and more. Many utilities can perform this job for you:. It gives information about all the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource i. It contains a widely used Internet record listing that recognizes who owns a domain and how to get in contact with them.

It is a useful tool that will allow you to search for domains by the name, address, phone number, email address, or physical address of the registrant listed in current or old Whois records.

Many automated tools are dedicated to this purpose and will ease the task to solve more complex problems. If your query is just to find related information on your data, then you can use the above options. Still, these manual searches can be time-consuming if you are performing a digital investigation or gather information for penetration testing.

Maltego is an Open Source Intelligence and forensics software developed by Paterva. This tool is used to solve more complex questions by taking it a single piece of information, then discovering links to more pieces of data relating to it.

Finally, it gives a complete big picture in terms of graphs to visualize the output. It has multiple features that are said to be Transforms, which pull the related information via API pulls and then comparing the gathered data that tends to give meaningful information.

A simple and handy tool will fetch the right information of the target. It is useful for scanning domains and gathering information like emails, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports, and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers, and SHODAN computer database.

It also uses some common platforms like Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Recon-ng is a command-line reconnaissance tool with an interface similar to Metasploit. Initiating Recon-ng will let you enter a shell-like environment where you can configure options, perform recon, and output results to different report types.

This tool is preloaded with loads of modules that use online search engines, plugins, and API that can help in gathering the information of the target. This article mainly focuses on how a person can collect information by using open source intelligence.

Even a non-technical one that has zero knowledge about cybersecurity, he can use online sources and, with few clicks to collect lots of data that is publicly posted on the surface web.

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