Nihad A. Hassan is an independent information security consultant, digital forensics and cybersecurity expert, online blogger, and book author. He has been actively researching different areas of information security for more than a decade and has developed numerous cybersecurity education courses and technical guides. He has completed several technical security consulting engagements involving security architectures, penetration testing, computer crime investigation, and cyber open source intelligence (OSINT). Nihad has authored six books and scores of information security articles for various global publications. He recently launched a dedicated site for open source intelligence resources at From the Summer 2021 Issue
Understanding the Terms
A (very) Brief Introduction to Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
Author(s):
Nihad A. Hassan, Author , OSINT.link
Introduction Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is a collective term used to describe all techniques and tools used to harvest information from publicly available resources in a timely manner to support a specific intelligence requirement. There was no particular date when the term OSINT was first coined; however, the act of gathering intelligence from publicly available … Read more
