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Impact of Big Data Era on Open Source Intelligence

Open source intelligence has a long history. As a specialized intelligence, its earliest and large-scale application can be traced back to the intelligence work of the United States and Britain before World War II. The BBC Morning Service (BBCM) established by the United Kingdom in 1939 and the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS) established by the United States in 1941 were the first agencies to carry out open source intelligence collection.

Over the past hundred years, personnel from many news media, research institutions, and social intelligence agencies have been engaged in the collection and analysis of various public information.

Although open source intelligence has a long history, the advent of the information age, especially the application and popularization of the Internet, as well as the development of information science and technology, have brought open source intelligence into a new stage. The rapid development of various mobile terminals and self-media has also brought about an explosive growth in the amount of information. The development of big data technology not only greatly expands the source of intelligence, but also deeply affects the information collection, information processing, analysis and judgment of open source intelligence.

In terms of information collection, big data can help us collect any information related to intelligence needs from massive amounts of data.

In terms of information processing, modern image processing, language translation and other technologies are used to clean, screen, compare, and classify the collected information.

In terms of analysis and judgment, intelligent algorithms and models can help us further discriminate the collected and processed information, discover its characteristics, and judge the relationship between massive amounts of information.

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Open source intelligence system: the "puzzle maker" in the era of big data

In the era of big data, we are facing a huge source of information. Open source data, also known as "wild data", generally refers to data released on the Internet, including economic statistics and traffic data released by the government, sales and management data released by legal persons, and behavioral and social data left by a large number of Internet users.

The development of technology has promoted the rapid increase of open source data, and at the same time, it has also provided opportunities for organizations/institutions that actively mine the value of open source data and seek to obtain or maintain investigative or analytical advantages.

In the state of increasing open source data, it is difficult for investigation and analysis organizations to effectively collect, merge and refine open source intelligence. Smarter investigation activities need to solve data overload, data credibility, and global reach.

Open source intelligence systems fully support all phases of an open source intelligence investigation, including data collection, data analysis, alert generation and reporting.

The users who are suitable for using the system include:

1. Customers who have high requirements for information authenticity but lack of information;

2. Information workers engaged in information search, mining, screening and research;

3. Professional analysts and investigators with high data processing pressure and high timeliness in relational data processing;

4. Customers who use data to accurately reach, locate and match targets to achieve business cooperation.



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