With the ever-increasing amount of unstructured data from internal and external sources available in a well-connected digital world, OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence) has come to the rescue as a breakthrough to enable intelligence collection from publicly available unclassified sources.
Though OSINT is primarily used in Government, Law enforcement agencies for national security it is becoming a key resource for collecting threat intelligence even in enterprise space for business intelligence functions and for penetration testers for digital foot printing in order to assist in Fraud Management techniques.