
The Rise Of OSINT In Threat Intelligence Analysis
By: Richard Hartley

Recent geopolitical events in Ukraine and the Middle East have highlighted the growing volatility of the world today. The emergence of states like Brazil, China and Russia underline how the world is moving to a more competitive place, with power more evenly distributed on a global scale. This structural shift in power distribution away from a consolidation of power in the West has been coined as the move from a unipolar to a multipolar world.
From another dimension, though, threats to governments and private sector organizations are increasingly fragmenting away from states and the traditional contours of sovereignty, and into the realm of entrepreneurial terrorist organizations.
Both of these shifts have implications for intelligence gathering in both the private and public sector.

Recent geopolitical events in Ukraine and the Middle East have highlighted the growing volatility of the world today. The emergence of states like Brazil, China and Russia underline how the world is moving to a more competitive place, with power more evenly distributed on a global scale. This structural shift in power distribution away from a consolidation of power in the West has been coined as the move from a unipolar to a multipolar world.
From another dimension, though, threats to governments and private sector organizations are increasingly fragmenting away from states and the traditional contours of sovereignty, and into the realm of entrepreneurial terrorist organizations.
Both of these shifts have implications for intelligence gathering in both the private and public sector.