THE ROLE OF OSINT COLLECTION IN INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT SEARCH
THE ROLE OF OSINT COLLECTION IN INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENT SEARCH

Summary/Abstract: In the Intelligence process, OSINT collection has a crucial role. Collection is the key to getting a good and useful product. Regardless of the field of study or preference for defining data - but especially in the Intelligence field - accurate data collection is essential to maintaining the integrity of the analytical product. The world is changing with the advancement of technology. Online sources prove more useful in gathering required intelligence to help analysts to understand some things. Nowadays, the Internet plays an important role in the OSINT collection, maybe the most important, because it provides lots of data that can be spread very fast. Therefore, the Internet is important for the growth of social media, media sharing sites, and their ease of access through various devices. Search engines are also experiencing a permanent development. For that reason, they provide a real support to analysts and their work. For instance, an eloquent example is the new Google service called Knowledge Graph. The Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google to enhance its search engine's search results with semantic search information gathered from a wide variety of sources. That way, it provides detailed information about a topic in addition to a list of links to other sites. That means users can use the information without having to navigate to other websites and assemble the information themselves.

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