The International Relations and Security Network of the Swiss University ETH in Zurich answers this question in an interview with Chris Pallaris, head of i-intelligence in Switzerland. The interview provides an excellent summary of the qualities and skills of intelligence analysts in both business and government intelligence environments – but it is also interesting in the context of the current situation in Germany (where we are about to reform intelligence services following the failure to uncover a series of right-wing terrorist attacks which happened over the last decade).
Chris describes Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) as „information legally derived from publicly available sources“, and shows that, subsequently, we all could profit from better open source intelligence skills, meaning the process of identification of an information need, finding the information, analyzing it, packaging it into a product and disseminating it.
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