The speakers in these forums are not always direct. The terms used within these forums are contextual and cultural. OSINT on the Dark Web consists of memberships in various forums.įlashpoint says it monitors roughly 330 forums. On the searchable internet, OSINT would consist of posts on twitter and other social media for intelligence. The two companies use open-source intelligence (OSINT) from public sources as opposed to covert or hidden activities. The two companies spoke jointly about the need for businesses to navigate the closed communities of the Dark Web, understand how adversaries operate, and separate rumor from reality. At the RSA Conference in San Francisco in April, Silobreaker, an intelligence platform, shared their partnership with Flashpoint, a company that delivers business risk intelligence, in a luncheon presentation.