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# OSINT ‐ Tips Investigations & Analysis

## OSINT Tips Analysis

There are still many steps you can do, I can't mention them all, this is a brief scenario that I often do

* Collection

This stage the researcher will collect information which are on social media profiles, media images, videos, sounds, education and other things

* Processing

Researchers will analyze and validate from data example the images in the post and view the metadata and data that has been collected

* Exploitation

At this stage the researcher will carry out sample analysis using Google Maps to do geoint and get pin points from the image. Exploitation also sometimes referred to as analysis e.g with social engineering and other things

* Production

Production, in this stage researcher will make a report containing what data researchers can start from the collection, processing and exploitation (analysis) stages and data that has been validated and mature


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