OSINT companies
We list 20 companies active in OSINT tools, and 7 of them have it as their main focus. 3 are owned by another company and 17 are private. Most are based in the United States (10) and the United Kingdom (3). The oldest, Silobreaker, was founded in 2005.
By countryUnited States 10
Companies focused on OSINT tools
7 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fivecast Open source intelligence software that collects and analyses online data to detect threats and hidden networks for national security, law enforcement and financial crime teams. | Adelaide, Australia | Private | ||
Intelligence X Intelligence X operates a search engine and data archive for open source intelligence. | Prague, Czech Republic | 2018 | Private | |
Opsis OSINT Opsis provides an OSINT search platform for looking up emails, usernames and domains across public sources. | United States | 2026 | Private | |
OSINT Industries OSINT Industries provides open-source intelligence tools for online investigations. | London, United Kingdom | Private | ||
Social Links OSINT and social media investigation software, including SL Crimewall, an API and a Maltego integration, used by law enforcement and corporate security teams. | New York, United States | Private | ||
Maltego Maltego provides a platform for open source intelligence and cyber investigations. | Germany | 2017 | Owned by Charlesbank Capital Partners | |
ShadowDragon ShadowDragon provides an OSINT software platform for investigators to collect and analyse public data. | Hoover, United States | 2016 | Private |
Also active in OSINT tools
13 companies| Company | Based in | Founded | Size | Ownership |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sencode CREST-accredited North East England penetration testing specialist founded in 2019, offering accessible and transparent security testing with free retests and a strong focus on social engineering. | Stockton-on-Tees, United Kingdom | 2019 | 1-10 staff | Private |
360 Privacy Removes personal data from data brokers and monitors the deep and dark web for clients. | Nashville, United States | 2019 | Private | |
Babel Street Risk intelligence platform that gathers multilingual online data and uses AI agents for threat, identity and vendor risk investigations by government and enterprise. | Reston, United States | Private | ||
Censys Censys maps internet infrastructure and provides intelligence for security operations and exposure management. | Ann Arbor, United States | 2017 | Private | |
Criminal IP Criminal IP provides threat intelligence solutions for uncovering exposed assets and detecting malicious infrastructure. | Torrance, South Korea | 2017 | Private | |
Cyber Intelligence House Provides dark web intelligence and cyber exposure monitoring to managed security service providers. | Singapore, Singapore | 2015 | Private | |
DomainTools DomainTools provides DNS-focused threat intelligence and domain security data to detect and mitigate malicious domains. | Seattle, United States | Private | ||
Silobreaker Silobreaker provides a software platform that gathers and analyses security and risk intelligence for organisations. | London, United Kingdom | 2005 | Private | |
Team Cymru Team Cymru provides global threat intelligence from internet traffic for proactive defence. | Lake Mary, United States | Private | ||
ARPSyndicate Builds internet-scale intelligence datasets and security products for vulnerability, subdomain, and physical reconnaissance. | New Delhi, India | Private | ||
KELA KELA provides cyber threat intelligence and external threat exposure management from underground sources. | Tel Aviv, Israel | Private | ||
Recorded Future Recorded Future provides a threat intelligence platform that indexes open, dark and technical sources. Acquired by Mastercard for $2.65bn. | United States | 2008 | Owned by Mastercard | |
ZeroFox ZeroFox provides external cybersecurity services to discover, validate, and disrupt digital threats. | Baltimore, United States | 2013 | Owned by Haveli |
Recent deals in OSINT tools
All OSINT tools dealsAcquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.