OSINT City Paul

Latest article from my collaboration with Neal Ysart and the Coalition of Cyber Investigators. It addresses a highly relevant and timely issue. It delves into how Black OSINT can spread disinformation while exploring how White OSINT supports fact-checking and verification efforts to combat it.

This article is one for anyone involved in OSINT, digital forensics, or the legal aspects of cyber investigations. It provides an initial deep dive into the legal scrutiny surrounding OSINT evidence, highlighting key case law and best practices.

OSINT has become crucial as insurance companies deal with more complicated risk environments and sophisticated fraud schemes. This examines how insurers can use open-source intelligence to detect fraud, from improving underwriting choices to increasing customer insights and catastrophe modelling.

Sustainability reporting - how can companies go beyond surface-level reporting to truly understand and improve their sustainability performance? This article explores how combining Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) can revolutionize sustainability reporting.

This exciting new article on best practices for grading, handling, and disseminating open-source intelligence. Essential reading for anyone in digital forensics, covert investigations, or intelligence gathering and sharing.

A comprehensive analysis of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and its crucial role in combating cybercrime. This timely article explores how OSINT has become an indispensable tool for law enforcement and cybersecurity professionals in tracking, preventing, and responding to digital threats.

The Europol/Eurojust 2024 report on cybercrime challenges, published on January 31, 2025, has substantial shortfalls on three essential issues: Open-Source Intelligence or OSINT methodology, Dark Web investigations, and intelligence grading standards.

Formal proceedings in courts of law often result from open-source intelligence and cybercrime investigations; therefore, it is worrisome that the term "forensics" is used or, better put, misused when referring to different tools and techniques.

Open-source intelligence practitioners must consider risks and grey procedure areas such as ethics, legality, and privacy. Probably the least discussed but most worrying of these risks is the inadvertent alerting of a suspect that they are the subject of an investigation.

Due diligence regarding suppliers and third-party due diligence is essential in minimising risks to reputation, regulatory compliance, and financial health. However, due diligence can be minimal.

This guide examines how OSINT is transforming how law firms conduct investigations and support their cases. From litigation support to due diligence, asset tracing to IP protection - OSINT offers powerful, cost-effective ways to uncover critical insights.

Balancing transparency, confidentiality, and ethics in investigations that concern whistleblowing. This article explores preventative measures OSINT practitioners and whistleblowing system managers can adopt to minimise these risks.