Technical Intelligence (TECHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every device carries a confession: certification filings, component markings, firmware strings and design choices. Technical intelligence reads that confession to...
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Patent Intelligence (PATENTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A patent is a bargain: an inventor gets a monopoly, and the public gets the working details. That trade makes...
Academic Intelligence (ACADINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Research output is the earliest public indicator of national and corporate capability. A capability appears in a paper years before...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Criminal Intelligence (CRIMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Criminal intelligence is not case notes with better formatting. It is the discipline that turns scattered incidents into an articulable...
Energy Intelligence (ENERGYINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Energy is where physics, contracts and politics meet, and all three leave records. Energy intelligence reads the flows and the...
News Intelligence (NEWSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Reporting is evidence of what was published, by whom, when and sourced how. Treated that way it is one of...
Disinformation Intelligence (DISINFOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The finding is rarely that a claim is false. It is that a set of accounts, sites and outlets behaved...
Telephony Intelligence (TELINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A phone number is a routing address issued under a published plan, not a person. Telephony intelligence extracts everything the...
Identity Intelligence (IDENT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Identity resolution fails in two directions and only one of them is visible. A missed link costs you the investigation;...
Email Intelligence (EMAILINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An email address is three things at once: an identifier, a routing instruction and a piece of infrastructure history. Email...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Human intelligence is the only discipline where the source can be harmed by your success. Every rule in the tradecraft...
Medical Intelligence (MEDINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Medical intelligence is not about outbreaks. It is about whether the hospital your team would actually be taken to can...
Epidemiological Intelligence (EPIINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An outbreak is visible in reporting well before it is measurable in statistics. Epidemiological intelligence is the discipline of reading...
Government Intelligence (GOVINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Decisions are made by named people, in named bodies, under written procedures. Government intelligence is knowing which body, which person...
Election Intelligence (ELECTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An election is the most predictable high-risk event on any calendar: fixed date, known actors, published rules. Election intelligence is...
Imagery Intelligence (IMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
An image is a measurement, not a picture. Imagery intelligence extracts what can be measured, then defends out loud the...
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Place is the one attribute nearly every other data point carries. Geospatial intelligence makes place answer questions: what is here,...
Risk Intelligence (RISKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Risk intelligence is what stops a briefing ending with it depends. It converts what you know, and what you do...
Reference Intelligence (REFINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Most wrong conclusions can be traced back to two records an analyst believed were about the same thing. Reference intelligence...
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Open source is not free intelligence. It is unvalidated raw material available to anyone, including your adversary, and the discipline...
Sanctions Intelligence (SANCINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
A sanctions hit is not a finding. It is the start of one, and the work is proving whether the...
Financial Intelligence (FININT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Follow the money is a cliche because it works. Financial intelligence is the discipline of following value through the institutions...
Economic Intelligence (ECONINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Economic intelligence is how you see a disruption forming while it is still a shipping rate, an export licence and...
