Open-source intelligence (OSINT) has become a pervasive term. This information is collected from publicly available sources such as the Internet, radio frequencies, airwaves and newspapers. OSINT includes information or data that is openly available for anyone to access. The term, coined by the intelligence community, is commonly used in the government and military, and more increasingly by the commercial marketplace. However, as more people and companies join social media networks, OSINT has evolved into what we now call Social Media Intelligence or SOSINT.
Social media content is a highly valuable asset for litigators, hiring managers, law enforcement officers, small business owners and executives. SMI has become the leader in SOSINT technology and services. We continuously search the top social media sites and constantly monitor new and growing networks.
Acquiring Meaningful and Actionable Social Media Evidence
An Edison Research study recently found that 67% of Americans are using some form of social networking site. Every minute of every day, billions of people worldwide are posting social information. This establishes a public, searchable, content-rich legacy for anyone who spends time on social media. Decision-makers who are trying to manage risk by making high value decisions in a cost-effective manner can leverage SOSINT because of its relevant, real-time, meaningful and actionable data. With the amount of information at your fingertips and the flood of results following an online search utilizing SOSINT sources, information literacy is more important than ever. It’s not just about finding information, but understanding whether those sources are trusted.
While search engines are still a primary tool for research, queries may produce poorly referenced data or worse—data from sources that are not trustworthy. Anyone can create a blog, website or social media profile and disseminate information to the public. The challenge is sifting through search results to unearth meaningful data. Even if you find what you believe is reliable information, in many cases you may have to delve further and search additional SOSINT resources to determine whether that data is any good. This becomes a time-consuming and exhausting process. SMI Aware uses proprietary algorithms to scour SOSINT sources for only the most relevant and precise results. Using this technology and our exceptional analyst team, we can identify specific individuals for searches and eliminate unconfirmed results.
Saving You Time and Money
SMI’s innovative solutions reduce the time of collecting, organizing and analyzing social media information and data from SOSINT sources. For example, our SMI Search Spider—built on our own technology—will automatically collect, score and prioritize link matches to biographic search terms across social networks, blogs, news sites, commercial search engines and archived websites.
Since we provide simple open source intelligence research analysis reporting and management, our results are reliable, fast and accurate. In addition to our automated software, we also use a highly trained person to provide our clients with relevant and repeatable results. More importantly, it saves you time so you can focus on other pertinent matters.
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