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Continuous OSINT monitoring: enriching threat and exposure
By Steven Carrier Updated on
OSINT is intelligence gathered from open sources, without asking the target organisation for anything. Beareye turns it into continuous monitoring that enriches two views of risk. Your exposure: each asset gains the context that open sources reveal (exposed data, information about your executives, visible infrastructure). The threat: each signal is linked to the leaks, spoofed domains and attack techniques the platform tracks. Beareye alerts you when something new appears and passes the result on to prioritisation.
- Continuous collection
- Correlated with your exposure
- Developed in France
Why does scattered information paint a target?
An email address in a data leak , an overly detailed executive profile, a technical service left visible: taken one by one, these items seem harmless. Put together, they give an attacker what they need to prepare a targeted intrusion. The problem is not each piece of information, it is how they correlate, and few organisations monitor that. To go further: OSINT reconnaissance: what an attacker prepares (article in French).
What exposure does OSINT monitoring cover?
Beareye covers three dimensions of open-source exposure. Human exposure: executives, managers, reusable personal data. Physical exposure: sites, locations, geolocatable details. Digital exposure: visible services, technologies, technical traces. Each dimension feeds a unified reading of risk.
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Human
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Physical
Sites and locations
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Digital
Services and technical traces
How does OSINT enrich exposure and threat?
A one-off OSINT investigation gives a picture at a point in time. Beareye monitors continuously and alerts you when new information appears: a recent leak, a spoofed domain , newly published data about an executive. Each signal is attached to the asset on your attack surface it concerns, then placed in the context of the threat: the attack technique it enables, the related leak or campaign. This enrichment feeds Cyber Threat Intelligence and remediation priorities, to tell a curiosity apart from a real risk.
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Collect
Information exposed in open sources.
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Alert
When something new appears.
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Enrich
The exposed asset and the threat targeting it.
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Prioritise
To tell a curiosity apart from a real risk.
Why are your executives prime targets?
Executives concentrate risk: CEO fraud, extortion, targeted social engineering. Beareye highlights the exposed information that makes these attacks possible. For an in-depth assessment and support, an executive exposure assessment complements continuous monitoring.
Open-source collection, within a controlled framework
Beareye only collects information available in open sources, with no intrusion or unauthorised access. The data is processed in compliance with the GDPR (see our privacy policy ) and hosted in France.
OSINT provides the raw material on what you expose; Cyber Threat Intelligence enriches it and places it in the context of threats, threat actors and their techniques. To compare CTI and OSINT in detail, see Beareye’s Cyber Threat Intelligence page.
What can be found about an organisation in open sources?
In the first analysis, open-source reconnaissance uncovered, as a median per organisation, 43 business email addresses usable for targeting, exploitable information on 3 executives and 11 unlisted infrastructure items. An attacker gathers the same information without any access to the information system.
Aggregated, anonymised data from Beareye’s OSINT monitoring: 20 organisations over two years. Medians calculated separately on each organisation’s first analysis, after deduplication; technical items compared with the initial inventory.
Sources and references
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), EUR-Lex
- ENISA Threat Landscape (social engineering), ENISA
- Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr, the French national victim assistance service (in French)
- Protecting yourself against fake transfer order fraud, DGCCRF, the French consumer protection authority (in French)
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Frequently asked questions
What is continuous OSINT monitoring?
OSINT (open source intelligence) is intelligence gathered from publicly accessible sources: the web, social networks, registers, published leaks. Continuous OSINT monitoring follows these sources over time to identify the information an organisation exposes and enrich its view of exposure and threats, without ever interacting with it directly.
How does Beareye OSINT differ from an OSINT assessment?
Beareye provides continuous, automated monitoring that enriches your exposure and threat signals and alerts you when something new appears. An OSINT engagement, offered as a service, is an investigation carried out by analysts at a given point in time, on a specific question. The two are complementary.
Is Beareye OSINT legal?
Yes. Beareye only uses information available in open sources, with no intrusion or unauthorised access. The data is processed in compliance with the GDPR and hosted in France.
Why monitor executive exposure?
Executives are prime targets for CEO fraud, extortion and social engineering. Information about them, scattered online, makes these attacks easier. Monitoring it closes an entry point that is often overlooked.
Find out what you expose
Beareye enriches your exposure and threat signals from open sources. A BEAROPS engineer walks you through the first findings on your own scope.