Open Source Intelligence
What is Open Source Intelligence?
The collection and analysis of publicly available information from open sources to support security investigations and threat intelligence activities.
Terms that appear alongside open source intelligence
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as open source intelligence. The number is how many controls name both.
- threat intelligence 3 shared controls
- mitre 2 shared controls
- cyber threat 2 shared controls
- dark web monitoring 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern open source intelligence
What the standards actually require on open source intelligence
Requirements naming open source intelligence across 2 standards, quoted from the control text.
FIRST CSIRT Services Framework v2.1 Service Area 4 - Situational Awareness. SCOPE: maintaining + sharing operational + tactical + strategic awareness of the cyber threat landscape relevant to the constituency.
FIRST-CSIRTF-SA4-SituationalAwareness · Service Area 4 - Situational Awareness and Threat Intelligence →Where the test includes reconnaissance or open-source intelligence gathering, the organisation ensures it stays within the agreed scope and rules of engagement: the effort is set to an agreed depth appropriate to the time and goals, additional domains, busines...
ptes::PTES-3.1 · Keep intelligence gathering within scope and the rules of engagement →Questions people ask about open source intelligence
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