Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Organized Crime
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
