Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the material garnered from publicly available resources and assembled into useful information for an intelligence apparatus. This can be governmental, political, commercial, or personal. This introductory field overview encompasses the origins, the foundational readings, the resources, and real world examples of the information in question. There is a real demand for people in the government and commercial space, who are able to acquire, distill, and or assemble OSINT into useful materials for political or commercial gain.
This Brian Martin is an information security professional currently based in Allentown, PA. He disassembled his first household electronic device at the age of 4. In 1988 the USAF told him to start breaking things, which was easy, given what some Pentagon contractors were turning out as “secure” in those days. After bouncing around the world for a bit, he settled in Allentown where he ended up in charge of information security at a $2B healthcare organization before finally founding Liticode, LLC focusing on commercial litigation evidence and pen testing. He is not the Brian M from Attrition, but would like to mention that they rock and the phone calls he gets on their behalf from charlatans are very entertaining.