InSight Crime: Intelligence Source Guide
InSight Crime is a non-profit newsroom and think tank covering organised crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, built on...
Open Source Intelligence
Global Terrorism Database: Intelligence Source Guide
The GTD is the longest-running open event dataset on terrorist attacks, coded incident by incident from public reporting since 1970....
ACLED Conflict Events: Intelligence Source Guide
ACLED codes individual political violence and protest events - date, place, actors, sub-event type and a conservative fatality figure -...
Small Arms Survey: Intelligence Source Guide
The Small Arms Survey is the reference research body for the weapons that do most of the killing: firearms holdings,...
Oryx OSINT Equipment Losses: Intelligence Source Guide
Oryx publishes cumulative lists of military equipment losses in which every single entry is backed by a photograph or video,...
IISS Military Balance: Intelligence Source Guide
The Military Balance is the annual open reference on the world's armed forces - personnel, equipment inventories, defence budgets and...
Internet Watch Foundation: Intelligence Source Guide
The IWF is the UK's hotline and assessment body for child sexual abuse imagery, and the operator of the industry...
INHOPE Hotline Network: Intelligence Source Guide
INHOPE is the international association of national hotlines that receive public reports of child sexual abuse material and route them...
Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative: Intelligence Source Guide
CTDC publishes de-identified, case-level records of individual trafficking victims contributed by IOM, Polaris and partner organisations. It is the only...
CITES Trade Database: Intelligence Source Guide
The CITES Trade Database holds the official record of international trade in protected species back to 1975, compiled from the...
INTERPOL Stolen Works of Art: Intelligence Source Guide
INTERPOL's Stolen Works of Art database holds descriptions and images of almost 57,000 objects, entered only by national central bureaux...
ICOM Red Lists: Intelligence Source Guide
ICOM Red Lists are illustrated typologies of the categories of cultural object most vulnerable to trafficking from a given country...
UCDP Georeferenced Events: Intelligence Source Guide
UCDP GED records individual incidents of organised violence worldwide from 1989 onward, each geocoded to a point, dated to a...
ReliefWeb (OCHA): Intelligence Source Guide
ReliefWeb is OCHA's curated archive of humanitarian reporting: situation reports, assessments, appeals, maps and analysis from thousands of organisations, indexed...
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX): Intelligence Source Guide
HDX is the UN's open catalogue of humanitarian data: administrative boundaries, population figures, displacement counts, food prices, conflict events and...
Keyword / Narrative: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A keyword is a hypothesis about language. Track the wrong string and you will measure nothing at all, very confidently....
Malware Family: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A malware family name is an analytical claim, not a fact stamped on the binary. It is the most useful...
CVE / Vulnerability: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A CVE identifier is a label for a flaw, not a measure of your risk. Treating the two as the...
IP Address: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IP address tells you where traffic went, not who sent it. Treat it as a lead on infrastructure, never...
Domain Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A domain name is the cheapest thing an adversary buys and the most expensive thing for them to keep clean....
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...
Risk Analysis: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The evacuation decision was made three days after the intelligence supported it. Nobody lacked information. What was missing was a...
Disinformation / IO: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Two hundred accounts posted the same seven-word phrase within ninety seconds. None of them had existed six weeks earlier. The...
