7 Open Source Threat Hunting

Open source information is one of the most overlooked resources available to analysts and researchers. Simply put, it’s any publicly available data that, when correlated and analyzed, can become actionable intelligence. At that point, researchers consider it open source intelligence (OSINT). While anyone can find open source information from resources such as the internet, books, and published research, these resources are vast, and unfortunately the sheer amount of data can overwhelm even experienced researchers. It’s easy to spend too much time hunting only to yield too few (or too many) results.

Luckily, ...

Get The Art of Cyberwarfare now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.