Radio Callsign: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A callsign is a licensed identity broadcast in the clear. Few identifiers are simultaneously regulated, globally unique and publicly indexed....
Technical Intelligence
Flight Number / Route: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A flight number is a marketing label. The aircraft underneath it is the thing that actually moved, and it keeps...
Software Package: Data Point Intelligence Guide
You do not audit the code you install. You audit, at best, the top of a dependency tree whose depth...
Code Repository: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A repository is an organisational confession: who builds what, on which infrastructure, with which mistakes, timestamped to the minute. Understanding...
Detection Signature: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A detection signature is intelligence written in executable form. Read as a document, it tells you exactly what its author...
IMEI / Device Identifier: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An IMEI identifies a handset, not a person and not a phone number. Confusing device identity with subscriber identity is...
Cell Tower / Cell ID: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A cell identifier is not a location. It is a piece of network infrastructure with a coverage footprint, and confusing...
Aircraft: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An aircraft carries three identities at once: what is painted on the tail, what the transponder broadcasts, and who actually...
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...
Shipping Container: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Eleven characters follow a steel box from a factory yard to a customs hold. The check digit tells you in...
HS Commodity Code: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six digits decide the tariff, the licence and the level of scrutiny. Getting them wrong is how controlled goods travel...
Satellite Imagery: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Overhead imagery does not tell you what happened. It tells you what changed between two dates, and the analyst supplies...
Facility / Site: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A facility is where corporate paper meets physical reality. Registries tell you who claims the site; the ground truth tells...
GPS Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Six decimal places is a doorstep. Two is a district. Precision in a coordinate is a decision about harm, not...
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...
Patent: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Patents are the one place where organisations are legally required to describe their capabilities in detail, name the engineers who...
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...
File / Document: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Every file carries more than its content. The container, the metadata and the structure record how it was made and...
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...
SSL/TLS Certificate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Adversaries change domains and IPs constantly. They reuse certificate configuration because it is tedious not to. That asymmetry makes the...
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...
File Hash: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A file hash is the cheapest reliable fact in cyber threat intelligence: fixed length, unambiguous, and either it matches or...
TLS / JA3 Fingerprint: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Encryption hides the payload, not the handshake. The way a client says hello is often enough to name the software...
ASN: Data Point Intelligence Guide
The ASN is where infrastructure stops being anonymous. Every packet on the public internet is routed by an organisation that...
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...
