Social media and criminal investigation

Introduction In the fields of intelligence and military investigation, the use of the O.S.INT discipline for open source analysis has grown steadily over the years. Inside this framework, cyber intelligence has seen the development of a new area, the SOC.M.INT. SOCial Media INTelligence is about socially produced content, and the tools that allow the creation…

Middle Eastern cyber security specialists join global “threat hunting” trend

Cyber security is not a field where trends happen easily, but the few that do appear tend to spread at wildfire speed. The newest innovation sweeping the regional cyber security sphere is “threat hunting”. Cyber security has graduated from threat detection and response, to actively pursuing sophisticated threats. According to Nicholas Watson, Managing Director at…