Deep Dive

Learn to gather and analyze publicly available data for your intelligence needs

In Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence, veteran open-source intelligence analyst Rae Baker explains how to use publicly available data to advance your investigative OSINT skills and how your adversaries are most likely to use publicly accessible data against you. The author delivers an authoritative introduction to the tradecraft utilized by open-source intelligence gathering specialists while offering real-life cases that highlight and underline the data collection and analysis processes and strategies you can implement immediately while hunting for open-source info.

In addition to a wide breadth of essential OSINT subjects, you’ll also find detailed discussions on ethics, traditional OSINT topics like subject intelligence, organizational intelligence, image analysis, and more niche topics like maritime and IOT. The book includes:

• Practical tips for new and intermediate analysts looking for concrete intelligence-gathering strategies
• Methods for data analysis and collection relevant to today’s dynamic intelligence environment
• Tools for protecting your own data and information against bad actors and potential adversaries

An essential resource for new intelligence analysts, Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence is also a must-read for early-career and intermediate analysts, as well as intelligence teams seeking to improve the skills of their newest team members.

AN INSIGHTFUL, EXPERT GUIDE ON USING OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE

In Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence, world-class maritime intelligence analyst Rae Baker delivers an in-depth discussion of the tradecraft used by open-source intelligence gathering specialists. In the book, you’ll learn to gather publicly available data, understand the intelligence lifecycle, and translate data into actionable intelligence for individuals, entities, and national security teams. The real-life cases included within will help you understand the data collection and analysis process, as well as the strategies you should implement when hunting for open-source information.

The author offers detailed explorations of traditional methods of open source analysis, practical options for improving collection techniques, and a unique look at how to apply nontraditional tradecraft such as transportation analysis. You’ll solidify your understanding of operational security and increase your individual and team awareness of how adversaries use publicly available data for illicit purposes.

A can’t-miss resource for social engineers, ethical hackers, and pentesters, Deep Dive: Exploring the Real-world Value of Open Source Intelligence will also prove indispensable to information security professionals and executives seeking to clarify their understanding of the possibilities and threats posed by publicly available data.

Readers will also find:

• Insights into the importance of securing your supply chains
• Strategies for using IoT devices to gather intelligence
• Ways to gather data using publicly available transportation information
• Techniques for improving operational security
• Methods for understanding how adversaries use publicly accessible data
• Strategies to deepen your security team’s understanding of intelligence gathering

About the Author

RAE BAKER is a Senior OSINT Analyst on the Dynamic Adversary Intelligence team at Deloitte specializing in maritime intelligence, human intelligence, corporate reconnaissance, and U.S. sanctions research. Rae is also a licensed private investigator and owns Kase Scenarios, an immersive training experience geared toward readying individuals for real-life OSINT work.