Businesses

OSINT is essentially a mix of all the tools covered in this course and the strategies on how to use them so you will see the same tools again and again. There are a lot of things you can use for researching a company. You can identify the employees, who is running the company, who the executives are. Depending on the size of the company, you can figure out the organizational structure. You can look up the social media sites that the company and the employees are using. You can look at job descriptions and how the company hires people.

You are looking for information that can help you identify people and places, information that can be found through what employees are putting online, especially if it’s a physical engagement and/or social engineering. You need to find out everything about the company and narrow it down.

Subsections of Businesses

Hunting Business Info

You might be able to find useful information from photos and videos. Is there a dress code? Is there a badge? Who are the employees you are looking at. Can you see their office, desk, computers, applications, OS, badges, phones, inside the office, etc.

  • linkedin.com
    • Search - from a profile that has no connections.
      • tcm security
      • check tabs and look for information
      • About
      • People
        • images - right click, open in new tab, save photos, reverse image search.
        • copy “position title” and search it on google.
          • "IT Solutions Engineer at TCM Security"
          • find linkedin or other profiles online.
          • site:linkedin.com "* at TCM Security" (with wildcard)
          • might be “false positives” - non-employees showing up.
          • site:linkedin.com/in/ "* at TCM Security"
          • site:linkedin.com/pub "* at TCM Security"
      • Videos

Database of companies (requires a little digging through internal and external links):
opencorporates.com
You can search for companies and/or individuals.

Database of companies:
aihitdata.com

Job search:
indeed.com
Sometimes the job details will have a lot of information, software the company uses. Search for companies, positions, people.

Company search (indeed.com):
google.com

  • Jobs can be found that are not listed on a companies Indeed.com pages.
  • "Empirical Concepts Inc" site:indeed.com
  • Also look up just the company to see if they have a jobs or careers page on their own website or other sites like linkedin.com.