OSINT Education Spotlight: Don't Forget the Grammar!

The term open-source intelligence is hyphenated in accordance with both Public Law 109-163 as well as 117-103, and comports with English language grammatical rules.

As a noun, the acronym OSINT refers to an intelligence discipline. As an adjective, OSINT describes: a type of intelligence product; an intelligence professional trained to collect and exploit PAI; a type of intelligence activity; or an organization/team/ section that performs said activity. Use of OSINT as a verb or as a substitute for the terms publicly available information (PAI) or commercially available information (CAI) does not meet professional standards.

See the OSINT Definitions Document for more details here: https://lnkd.in/e2mCHxyU