Messaging Handle: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A messaging handle outlives phone numbers, domains and marketplaces. It is the thread that ties an operation together across years...
Financial Intelligence
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
Vessel / Ship: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A ship can change its name, its flag and its owner in a week. The IMO number assigned at build...
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...
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...
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...
Corporate Filing: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Filings are where organisations say things under legal obligation, on the record and with a date. That combination is rare...
Legal Entity Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The LEI is the closest thing global finance has to a universal entity key, and unusually for identity data it...
Company / Organization: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Companies are how money, liability and control get organised. Follow the entity and you find the people who preferred not...
Password / Credential: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An exposed credential is a defensive workload, not an offensive opportunity. The only question worth asking is which of your...
Data Breach: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A breach is not a single event, it is a dataset with a life of its own. The incident ends...
Onion / Hidden Service: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An onion address is a public key, not a location. Everything you can learn about a hidden service comes from...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Email Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An email address is an account key, a routing instruction and a reputation record in one string. It is also...
Person / Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A name is the weakest identifier in intelligence work and the one most likely to end a career when handled...
URL: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A URL is the only artifact that carries the attacker instruction set in plain sight. Parse it properly and it...
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...
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....
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...
