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Corporate Intelligence2 September 202630 min read

How an OSINT Investigation Works: Scope, Collect, Verify, Analyse and Report

A professional open-source intelligence investigation is a structured process for answering a defined question using publicly available or lawfully accessible information.

Corporate Intelligence1 September 2026
What Is OSINT? From Public Information to Decision-Grade Intelligence
Open-source intelligence is intelligence produced by collecting, verifying and analysing information that is publicly available or lawfully accessible.
22 min read
Protective Intelligence14 July 2026
When Does Online Abuse Become a Protective Intelligence Concern?
Most hostile messages are unpleasant and nothing more. The task is to identify the small proportion that indicate something else, without treating volume as evidence of danger.
6 min read
Threat Assessment2 June 2026
From Troll to Person of Interest: Understanding Escalation
Escalation is rarely dramatic. It is usually a gradual change in tone, frequency, specificity, and proximity that is only visible against a record.
7 min read
Protective Intelligence19 May 2026
Why High-Profile Individuals Need Intelligence Continuity
Protective intelligence loses most of its value when it is delivered as a series of unconnected snapshots.
5 min read
Practice28 April 2026
Protective Intelligence vs Executive Protection
They are complementary disciplines with different questions, different outputs, and different failure modes.
5 min read
Corporate Intelligence31 March 2026
What Enhanced Due Diligence Should Actually Tell You
A report that lists search results is not diligence. The value is in what has been corroborated, what has not, and what remains unknown.
6 min read
Practice24 February 2026
The Intelligence Gap Between Social Monitoring and Physical Security
Monitoring tools generate alerts. Security teams need judgements. Something has to sit between the two.
6 min read
Protective Intelligence20 January 2026
Building an Intelligence Picture Around a Person of Concern
A structured record answers three questions: what is known, what is changing, and what would we need to know to be confident.
7 min read
Corporate Intelligence9 December 2025
Why Confidence Levels Matter in Corporate Intelligence
A finding without a confidence level asks the reader to guess how much weight it can carry.
5 min read

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Notes on intelligence practice.

How an OSINT Investigation Works: Scope, Collect, Verify, Analyse and Report

What Is OSINT? From Public Information to Decision-Grade Intelligence

When Does Online Abuse Become a Protective Intelligence Concern?

From Troll to Person of Interest: Understanding Escalation

Why High-Profile Individuals Need Intelligence Continuity

Protective Intelligence vs Executive Protection

What Enhanced Due Diligence Should Actually Tell You

The Intelligence Gap Between Social Monitoring and Physical Security

Building an Intelligence Picture Around a Person of Concern

Why Confidence Levels Matter in Corporate Intelligence

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