# OSINT **Entity class:** Intelligence discipline **Domain:** Intelligence collection / public information **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Open-source intelligence (OSINT)** is intelligence produced from publicly or commercially available information that is lawfully collected, evaluated, and analyzed for a specific requirement. Sources can include news, public records, websites, social platforms, academic literature, geospatial products, corporate filings, and technical data. Availability does not eliminate verification, privacy, licensing, or attribution requirements. OSINT becomes intelligence through a documented analytic process; a search result or social post alone is raw information. ## Relationships - **supports:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Intelligence|Counterterrorism Intelligence]]. - **social-platform subset:** [[wiki/SOCMINT|SOCMINT]]. - **combined through:** [[wiki/All-Source Intelligence|All-Source Intelligence]]. - **can populate:** [[wiki/Identity and Relationship Analysis|Identity and Relationship Analysis]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Office of the Director of National Intelligence — What is Intelligence?](https://www.dni.gov/index.php/what-we-do/what-is-intelligence)