Online data and open-source intelligence are increasingly becoming part of everyday discussion. Our industry continues to grow over time, bringing forth exciting ways in which data can benefit your organization. Here are five open-source intelligence (OSINT) trends to be monitoring in 2017 and moving forward.
Social media data has become a tremendous tool for businesses to connect directly with their target audience. However, due to its popularity, social media channels create excess noise that disrupts businesses from centering in on who they want to reach. It’s a difficult task to know who is a prominent member of an audience and […]
Our lives are ever-changing. Many, if not all, of us will experience a monumental change somewhere down the road. In order for business owners to grow, they must maintain meaningful relationships with their clients. Therefore, it’s important for them to be aware of the important moments happening in their lives. Tagging and data harvesting is […]
We have added a brand new case study to our website. This study focuses on how OSINT (open source intelligence) tools could help us discover the identity behind a Twitter account. To demonstrate, the Twitter account we examined was that of president-elect, Donald Trump. We also demonstrate how this tweet identification process can help with […]
During this presidential election, we have seen a dramatic increase in the use of social media by public officials. From state senates to the White House, politicians are embracing the use of posting on these platforms to express their viewpoints, accomplishments, criticisms, and personal opinions. The use of open source intelligence tools helps determine words that come […]
Being able to access data from sources that you normally wouldn’t be able to access through conventional search engines is an advantage. Think of accessing data like fishing in the ocean. You might be able catch plenty of fish with the equipment available to you (i.e. Google, Bing, Yahoo)–but you want to catch the fish […]
We do research and the writing so you can reap the rewards. Starting this month, every month we’ll compile the highlights from our Deep Web University posts. We send a collection of blog posts straight to our subscribers’ email inboxes so they can get the most value out of the available intelligence. Sign up and […]
BrightPlanet often gets lumped in with companies like Radian6, uberVU or Sysomos, but our services are nothing like those of a media monitoring company. No offense to those businesses, but data harvesting is a completely different service for a more involved customer. Here’s a look at the major differences between media monitoring and data harvesting, […]
Donald J. Trump says a lot of controversial things, and is particularly fond of unleashing his stream of consciousness through the medium of Twitter. But is he responsible for all the tweets that appear in his name? Using data harvested by BrightPlanet and Receptiviti’s emotional intelligence analysis technology, we’ll discuss how analyzing origination and personality profiles […]
Finding ‘signal’ through the noise of open source information is ultimately what will drive value to your organization. Whether this is to support sales, investment decisions, or the fight against fraud, corruption, IP theft, or terrorism, it all depends on identifying the ‘signal’ in the data. This article is intended to start a conversation about […]