Privacy & Security Glossary

OSINT

Intelligence

Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience. It includes information from media, internet, public data, and other unclassified sources.

Example

Analyzing social media posts about events, monitoring news reports for patterns, studying academic publications for technological developments, or gathering information from public government documents.