Correlation between Internet Security and OSINT

Abstract

The importance of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is getting a bigger role in the lives of services in recent years, because the acquiring and possessing of digital information poses new challenges for professionals. Most of us have probably heard the commonplace that ‘once something posted on the Internet it stays there forever’. We have to do our daily job with this in mind, as we never know who and when can use personal information against us, for which we have provided the data ourselves at some point in the recent or distant past. As a part of this article, I present the
importance of the OSINT and while underlining the importance of digital awareness, I point out some typical weaknesses, such as the lack of knowledge of children and
the elder age group in this field, the data collection of operating systems and other programs. The dangers posed by leaked or collected databases and circumstances
and consequences of data loss, I also cover the continuously expanding field of special data collection software. Based on these, I outline a solution proposal that can be a useful help in terms of either prevention or minimisation of losses.