Open Source Intelligence

OSINT Investigations

Adversary-grade reconnaissance from public sources — surface web, social platforms, and brand exposure analysis.

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Overview

What you get with OSINT Investigations.

OSINT Investigations replicate the first move of every serious adversary: build a complete picture of your organization from publicly available sources before sending a single packet at your infrastructure. The signals are out there — in code repositories, document metadata, social profiles, breach corpora, certificate transparency logs, and the long tail of forgotten internet exhaust — and they are exactly what a competent attacker pieces together to plan their entry.

Our investigators combine human tradecraft with purpose-built collection tooling to map your external attack surface, identify exposed credentials and documents, profile high-value employees, and surface the technical and human pivots a real adversary would use. Every finding is verified by an analyst before it reaches your report, so you can act on signal instead of triaging noise.

Engagements are tailored to a specific objective — pre-engagement recon for a red-team operation, executive protection, M&A diligence, brand impersonation tracking, or a baseline external exposure assessment — and delivered with the analyst notes that show exactly how an attacker would have reached the same conclusion.

  • Surface web reconnaissance
  • Social engineering surface mapping
  • Brand & data exposure analysis
  • Competitive & adversary intelligence
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Methodology

How we run the engagement.

01

Scoping & Selectors

We define the targets — domains, executives, brands, code, products — and the questions the investigation needs to answer for your specific use case.

02

Multi-Source Collection

Surface web, social platforms, code repositories, document metadata, breach corpora, certificate transparency, and dark-web pivots are mined in parallel.

03

Analyst Correlation

Raw signals are validated, deduplicated, and correlated into a coherent picture — who, what, where, and how an attacker would weaponize each finding.

04

Reporting & Handoff

Findings are delivered with severity, exploitability narrative, and remediation guidance — and, where relevant, fed directly into a downstream red-team operation.

Outcomes

Measurable impact, not vanity metrics.

  • Validated map of your organization's external exposure — assets, identities, and data
  • Identified credential, document, and source-code leaks before adversaries exploit them
  • Executive-protection intelligence on high-value targets and impersonation risk
  • Realistic, intelligence-driven scoping for red-team and adversary-simulation engagements
Deliverables

What lands in your inbox.

  • Investigation report with verified findings and severity scoring
  • External attack-surface map with asset inventory and ownership
  • Exposed-credential and leaked-document register with takedown guidance
  • Executive-summary briefing for leadership and security teams
Frequently Asked Questions

The questions clients ask most.

How is OSINT different from a vulnerability scan?

A vulnerability scan probes systems you already know about. OSINT answers the prior question — what systems, accounts, documents, and identities does an attacker know about you that you don't know they know? The output is qualitatively different: exposure intelligence, not a CVE list.

Do you ever interact with our systems during the engagement?

No. OSINT is strictly passive — every finding comes from sources already public on the internet. Nothing we do touches your infrastructure or triggers your detection stack, which is exactly what makes the output realistic to what a real adversary sees.

Can OSINT feed into a red-team engagement?

Yes — and that's where it shines. A standalone OSINT investigation can be delivered as the intelligence package for a follow-on ATIA or pentest, so the operators begin with the same reconnaissance an actual threat actor would have spent weeks collecting.

How long does an investigation take?

Most engagements run 2–4 weeks depending on organization size, executive footprint, and the depth of dark-web pivoting required. Targeted executive-protection investigations can complete in under a week.

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