A guest post on Recorded Future’s blog by Sudhanshu Chauhan, security analyst at iViZ Techno Solutions and researcher at the Infosec Institute, discusses the benefits of open source web information for cyber threat and vulnerability assessment. Here’s an excerpt:
This kind of [analytic] technology is very helpful in domains that require attention to and analysis of what is being discussed on the web and how information is linked. From the cyber security point of view, this technology is useful not only for reconnaissance (first phase of pentesting) on a target but also to learn about cyber attacks in the form of malwares, APTs, DDoS attacks, etc.
And you can check out the full post here.