Bank Account / IBAN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Money leaves a trail in fixed-width fields. An IBAN names the country, the institution and often the branch before you...
Cryptocurrency Address
Sanction / Watchlist Entry: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A sanctions hit is not an answer. It is a name, a legal basis and a programme code telling you...
Stock Ticker / Security: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ticker is the shortest string that opens a company's entire regulated paper trail. Four characters, and the filings, the...
Transaction Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A transaction hash is the one financial record that is permanent, publicly verifiable and impossible for the counterparty to alter...
Cryptocurrency Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A blockchain address is a pseudonymous account with a permanent, public and complete transaction history. That combination makes it the...
Logistics Intelligence (LOGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Goods leave a paper trail long before they leave the warehouse. Customs declarations, manifests and trade statistics describe physical movement...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cryptocurrency Intelligence (CRYPTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Public blockchains keep a permanent, complete record of every transfer. The hard part was never the data. It is knowing...
Corporate Intelligence (CORPINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Every company is a legal fiction held together by filings. Corporate intelligence reads those filings to establish who is actually...
Accounting Intelligence (ACCTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Financial statements are an argument, not a record. Accounting intelligence is the discipline of testing whether the argument actually holds....
Threat Actor Intelligence (ACTORINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Infrastructure changes weekly and tooling changes quarterly, but habits almost never change. Actor intelligence is the discipline of tracking what...
Paste Site Intelligence (PASTINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Paste sites are where data goes to be shared quickly and forgotten slowly. A dump that lives for eleven minutes...
Dark Web Intelligence (DARKINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
The dark web is not a place, it is an access-control problem. Most of what matters happens in venues no...
Breach Intelligence (BREACHINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Most intrusions begin with a password that already worked somewhere else. Breach intelligence is the discipline of knowing which of...
Counter-Terrorism: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Attack planning leaves a logistics trail before it leaves an ideological one: a rented van, a chemical purchase, a reconnaissance...
Fraud & Identity: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The synthetic identity that just passed your onboarding checks has a credit file, a utility bill and eighteen months of...
Sanctions Evasion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Sanctions evasion leaves a documentary shadow: a new intermediary in a familiar corridor, a vessel that stops transmitting for eleven...
Anti-Money Laundering: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Money laundering intelligence is not about spotting dirty money. It is about spotting structures whose only purpose is to make...
