Social Media OSINT Without the Indigestion

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By our count, there are 100,000+ security related Twitter accounts, 2000+ blogs, 1000+ conferences/events, 75+ podcasts, and countless other social media sources. The momentary euphoria of catching up on your Twitter feed hardly alleviates the more frequent anxiety of being behind on infosec “news” when work and life get busy. While there are many tools for aggregating and searching social media content, none of them are designed to identify and extract quality data for a particular topic. Our research shows that only 30% of Tweets by infosec-focused accounts are original content and only a fraction of those provide actionable information. Are you new to security and want to know where to find the most original and timely social media posts? Do you want data-driven answers to who the real influencers are in our field? What about those practitioners who are doing great work, but are flying under the radar? In this talk, we will demonstrate tools we have built to address these questions and derive contextually relevant value from more social media sources in less time. We will also be sharing details about soon to be available public access to the tools and plans for ongoing feature additions and refinements. With so many people doing and sharing amazing work, why miss out on content that would be impactful to you, because you weren’t following the right person, had a busy day, or didn’t have the budget or time to go a conference?