Knowlesys Intelligence System - open source intelligence monitoring
Principles
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the collection and analysis of information that is gathered from public, or open, sources.OSINT is primarily used in national security, law enforcement, and business intelligence functions and is of value to analysts who use non-sensitive intelligence in answering classified, unclassified, or proprietary intelligence requirements across the previous intelligence disciplines.
OSINT sources can be divided up into six different categories of information flow:
Media:, print newspapers, magazines, radio, and television from across and between countries.
Internet, online publications, blogs, discussion groups, citizen media (i.e. – cell phone videos, and user created content), YouTube, and other social media websites (i.e. – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.). This source also outpaces a variety of other sources due to its timeliness and ease of access.
Public Government Data, public government reports, budgets, hearings, telephone directories, press conferences, websites, and speeches. Although this source comes from an official source they are publicly accessible and may be used openly and freely.
Professional and Academic Publications, information acquired from journals, conferences, symposia, academic papers, dissertations, and theses.
Commercial Data, commercial imagery, financial and industrial assessments, and databases.
Grey literature, technical reports, preprints, patents, working papers, business documents, unpublished works, and newsletters.
OSINT is distinguished from research in that it applies the process of intelligence to create tailored knowledge supportive of a specific decision by a specific individual or group.
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Definition
OSINT is defined by both the U.S. Director of National Intelligence and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), as "produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience for the purpose of addressing a specific intelligence requirement."
According to political scientist Jeffrey T. Richelson, “open source acquisition involves procuring, verbal, written, or electronically transmitted material that can be obtained legally. In addition to documents and videos available via the Internet or provided by a human source, others are obtained after U.S. or allied forced have taken control of a facility or site formerly operated by a foreign government or terrorist group.”
Security researcher Mark M. Lowenthal defines OSINT as “any and all information that can be derived from overt collection: all types of media, government reports and other documents, scientific research and reports, commercial vendors of information, the Internet, and so on. The main qualifiers to open-source information are that it does not require any type of clandestine collection techniques to obtain it and that it must be obtained through means that entirely meet the copyright and commercial requirements of the vendors were applicable."
Knowlesys is a dynamic web intelligence tool that allows you to harness the vast amount of intelligence data available on the web such as social media networks, news networks, websites, blogs and other Internet sources.This cluttered data extracted by Knowlesys is stored and processed into noise free quality data on the agency’s local database for monitoring, filtering and further analysis.
Knowlesys features advanced capabilities for processing multi languages to perform sentiment and trend analysis. In addition, it is also capable of processing informal or fused languages like Arablish including web or chat alphabets such as Arabish or Arabizi.Knowlesys will be of great use for Government Security Agencies, organizations and companies to effectively gain valuable insights to improve situational awareness and to help in crime prevention.