THE ROLE OF OSINT IN REINVENTING INTELLIGENCE
THE ROLE OF OSINT IN REINVENTING INTELLIGENCE

Author(s): Cristian Bărbulescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: OSINT; public intelligence; intelligence analysis; knowledge; SOCMINT
Summary/Abstract: In the twentieth century, the "secret" set itself up as the main working tool for the intelligence agencies. The "information" was considered a valuable resource because of the difficulties involved in getting it. Currently the "open source" component of the "information" has achieved a growing role in intelligence amid accelerated growth that we experienced in technology and communications. Today, some valuable information can be identified at distance by combining all the possibilities offered by the online communication environment. Tomorrow, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve this outcome given that the online environment is transformed into a place of confrontation between adversaries open to mass distortion and associated to various forms of cyber aggression.The present study aims to highlight the trends generated by the OSINT "revolution" in the security field with emphasis mainly on the features that are identified within the intelligence cycle.

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