No. 32: Open Source Intelligence

A Strategic Enabler of National Security

Author(s): Chris Pallaris
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 32
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2008

The importance of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has grown in recent years. For the traditional intelligence community, OSINT is likely to remain one component of an all-source intelligence capacity that includes classified sources. For most government agencies, however, OSINT is the only intelligence they have access to, which renders it a strategic enabler of decision- and policy-making. Governments should consider formulating a national OSINT strategy and establishing an OSINT center to allow for the effective exploitation of open source information.

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