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External intelligence sources

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External intelligence sources

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- In this web safari, we're going to explore external intelligence sources to be aware of on the SecurityX exam, starting with OSINT, open-source intelligence. So here we are at IBM, and they're going to tell us that OSINT is the process of gathering and analyzing publicly available information, to assess threats, make decisions, or answer certain questions. Many organizations use OSINT as a cybersecurity tool to gauge security risks and identify vulnerabilities. Cyber criminals and crackers also use OSINT techniques for social engineering, phishing and exposing targets. Here's what it looks like specifically. This is the OSINT framework. Now, this is a website, and you can see all the different categories in the framework. Usernames, email addresses, domain names, IP addresses, and Mac address, so on and so forth. You know, social networks, instant messaging. As I click on these, it'll expand them out. So Skype, Snapchat, Kick. If we say, you know, dating sites, it'll expand all of…

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