Hi, guys, and welcome back. We are still in our
theoretical, journey through open source, intelligence. And
after the ethics behind those and Topic in the last video.
Now, we are going to go through the steps of
the open source intelligence cycle. This cycle
usually involves four to six steps, but
I always use the five-step approach because I think it explains and
covers it best the stages in.
Nudity. This cycle makes up a complete process of
developing, Road data and information into finished
intelligence for your customer or a client to
using their decision. Making process. The
five steps are planning collection, processing,
and exploitation. Analyze,
it analysis and dissemination.
The first stage of the ocean cycle called planning is
probably the most important one. If you're asking me,
why I have a few arguments, which can confirm this
model of thinking. One is, if you do not know what
is the purpose of your investigation. Then, the whole
effort is futile. There is a great quote by the
American President Abraham Lincoln. He said,
give me six hours to chop down a tree and
I will spend the first four sharpening the
axe. I think, this quote pain,
A great picture of the planning stage in the ocean cycle.
I think to think about is
which possible tools or vectors of Investigation. Will
you use, for example, would you use
besides the internet tools? May be some physical activities like
interacting with people related to the Target or
going to the library to the to do some research.
The planning stage is probably the most important one
since it involves the management of the entire intelligence effort.
The second stage of ocean cycle is collection, as
the name suggests. This stage includes activities, like
research data gathering information harvesting and
so forth. In the previous stage you made a
plan. What you want to do, what
you want to find out and what tools will use
to acquire that information. And in this stage, you
will do the actual grout work from my personal experience.
I always have a plan but that plans get tweaked
along the way since I
New ideas or find some better tools to conduct my DVDs?
There is more than one sort of
intelligence and these sources spend the different collection
disciplines name that humans, which
stands for human intelligence than geoint
for geospatial, where
data is gathered from satellite and different aerial
photography sources, then we have masand which
stands for measurement and signature intelligence
also into as an open source.
Intelligence source is also a part of this
disciplines. There are others
and I encourage you to do a simple search on Wikipedia, to
learn more about them. Now. Let's move
on to the third stage of ocean cycle called processing
and exploitation. In this stage. You will
start to sort out the previously, gather data and
information processing may include such activities as
translation and reduction of intercepted
messages into written format to
permitted.
Detailed analysis and comparison with other information.
A simple example would be to
conduct a translation of raw intelligence materials
from a foreign language, other types of processing
include video production photographic processing, and
correlation of information. Collected by
technical intelligence platforms. The
fourth stage called analysis establishes, the
significance and implications of processed intelligence integrates
it by combining.
Disparate pieces of information
to identify collateral information and patterns
then interprets the significance of
any newly developed knowledge. So this
process also consists of indentifying prioritizing and
validating intelligence, requirements translating
those requirements into observables
preparing collection plans, issuing requests
for information, collection production and
dissemination and continuously monitoring developments.
Ability of collected data, this stage
makes a fusion of all previously mentioned
stages of the ocean cycle.
And finally, the final stage named dissemination. I
have previously mentioned that they must dissemination basically
means reporting and I will give you a
more official description of it dissemination is
the conveyance of intelligence to the consumer
in a usable form. This means that
this report has to include all the relevant information, that
answers, the initial questions of
the investigation. It also has to be comprehensible.
So the customer, or a client,
And can make an informed decision based on the report you
provided just to touch on how or
better to say in on what media you will share this
report. I provide my reports digitally on an
encrypted storage device protected by a password that
is shared on the meeting with the customer. The
Final Phase is the ultimate confirmation of your investigations.
After we cover the ocean cycle, where you hopefully get a
better understanding, how to approach a nose investigation. We
will drop into the open source threats and countermeasures overview
part. So, see you in the next video.