The not yet exploited goldmine of osint: Opportunities, open challenges and future trends

VIII. OSINT IN COUNTRIES AND STATES

OSINT is not only beneficial in the private sector, but also

represents a resource of public interest in governments. In

this regard, in SUBSECTION VIII-A we discuss that OS-

INT is not a paradigm designed for paranoid analysts or

computer geeks, but indeed has an enormous benefit in the

cyberdefence national system [71]. Likewise, in SUBSEC-

TION VIII-B we observe that official authorities do not only

get profit from OSINT results for internal tasks, but indirectly

make the application of OSINT easier for third parties. In

fact, they become an agent that generates large amounts of

data accessible to everyone. In this sense, governments are a

double-edged sword which benefit from OSINT but at the

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same time they contribute to feed the Internet with really

valuable, and sometimes even sensitive, information.