OSINT, Commercial Data Sec

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

DC is full of talk about AI and cyber—but what about the data? The reality is, open-source intelligence (OSINT) and commercial data are exploding, and they’re revolutionizing the strategy, policy, and tactics of national security today. As journalists out Russian spies with OSINT and security agencies buy commercial data on millions of devices to hunt cyber threats, the US government, its allies and partners, and civil society are increasingly grappling with the implications of this data for privacy and civil liberties, the AI revolution, and national security in the 21st century. This course, from one of the world’s leading experts on commercial data, will explore the use of OSINT and commercial data to protect, and threaten, national security—and where US strategy and policy must go next.