A plethora of data on the Internet is open source, which means it is available for public access. Anything from public databases to mass media to images and videos can be considered open source. However, the data is much more diverse and spread out than we realize when we make a Google search. A large amount of data like databases, files, and several web pages go under the radar because they can’t be indexed by search engines. Considering the vastness and abundance of data, it’s only logical that it can be used for drawing out analysis. This is where open source intelligence, often abbreviated as OSINT, comes into the picture. Open source intelligence framework refers to the process of collecting raw data legally from numerous resources on the Internet and then analyzing the data to help in decision-making, forecasts, and understanding public perception.
There are hundreds and thousands of terabytes
