This article provides an overview for conducting corporate research and is intended as an index of all of our individual articles and guides on different aspects of corporate research. We will address where to find information on a company and what kinds of questions you can consider answering with your research. Basic Research The initial […]
How to Find Influential Actors in a Corporati...
For every corporation there are certain individuals that have disproportionate influence. Many researchers make the mistake of focusing too much on the board of directors, but this ignores other key players that can be a source of great insight. This article will explain how to identify “corporate insiders” and influential investors by using the Securities […]
How to Investigate a Company’s Website
The purpose of this post is to identify ways of getting more information about a company by researching its website. This post will address how to find the identities of people that own or manage a company website, get more information about them, learn about changes that occurred in a company over time, and find […]
Enhance Corporate Investigations by Web Scrap...
Editor’s Note: this post presumes that the reader has at least a passing knowledge of the programming languages Python and HTML. If this does not apply to you, sorry, you may not enjoy reading this. Consider looking at the crash courses on Python and HTML at Python For Beginners and Beginners’ Guide to HTML. This […]
Deep Net, Open Net, and the Dark Net
One can easily write at length to describe the differences between the deep net, dark net, and the open net, but they can also be summed up simply as follows. OPEN NET The open net is what you would call the “regular” internet. If there is a phrase on the open net , such as […]
Corporate Research on the Deep Web
Why the “Deep Web” is Important for Corporate Research When you try to research a company you likely will first see the information that the company itself puts out into the Internet, like its website, social media, or press statements. With this information it is hard to know what you can trust. In addition, relevant […]
Communications and OSINT in 21st Century Prot...
OPEN SOURCE WARFARE – The stark reality of DI
Been thinking about if to write this article for a long time, pondering the benefits versus the potential costs of what I’m about to write. Everything that will be illustrated here is available in the public domain and most of it has been so for well over a decade now. Been battled on this as […]
Socioeconomics and OSINT – A Working Example
Behind the Economics: Social Uprisings On 9 June 2020 hundreds of protestors in Seattle, Washington had filled the Seattle City Hall main entrance, setting up a community microphone in the dim lights as people, each representing a unique voice and concern, nervously milled the hall, now in their third week of protesting. As the clock […]
Genesis of coronavirus related Fake News
On March 23 the Jerusalem Post published an article titled : “Israeli doctor in Italy: We no longer help those over 60” The whole article is based on the report from an Israeli M.D. Gai Peleg working in Parma (Northern Italy). Here the portion of the article relevant to the headline “Peleg said that, from […]