Open Source Intelligence - Maltego
What is Maltego?
With the continued growth of your organization, the people and hardware deployed to ensure that it remains in working order is essential, yet the threat picture of your “environment” is not always clear or complete. In fact, most often it’s not what we know that is harmful – it’s what we don’t know that causes the most damage. This being stated, how do you develop a clear profile of what the current deployment of your infrastructure resembles? What are the cutting edge tool platforms designed to offer the granularity essential to understand the complexity of your network, both physical and resource based?
Maltego is a unique platform developed to deliver a clear threat picture to the environment that an organization owns and operates. Maltego’s unique advantage is to demonstrate the complexity and severity of single points of failure as well as trust relationships that exist currently within the scope of your infrastructure.
The unique perspective that Maltego offers to both network and resource based entities is the aggregation of information posted all over the internet – whether it’s the current configuration of a router poised on the edge of your network or the current whereabouts of your Vice President on his international visits, Maltego can locate, aggregate and visualize this information.
Maltego offers the user with unprecedented information. Information is leverage. Information is power. Information is Maltego.
Open Source Intelligence:
Maltego is a program that can be used to determine the relationships and real world links between:
ºPeople
ºGroups of people (social networks)
ºCompanies
ºOrganizations
ºWeb sites
ºInternet infrastructure such as:
ºDomains
ºDNS names
ºNetblocks
ºIP addresses
ºPhrases
ºAffiliations
ºDocuments and files
What can Maltego do for me?
ºMaltego can be used for the information gathering phase of all security related work. It will save you time and will allow you to work more accurately and smarter.
ºMaltego aids you in your thinking process by visually demonstrating interconnected links between searched items.
ºMaltego provide you with a much more powerful search, giving you smarter results.
ºIf access to “hidden” information determines your success, Maltego can help you discover it.
These entities are linked using open source intelligence. Maltego is easy and quick to install – it uses Java, so it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. Tool provides you with a graphical interface that makes seeing these relationships instant and accurate – making it possible to see hidden connections. Using the graphical user interface (GUI) you can see relationships easily – even if they are three or four degrees of separation away.
Maltego is unique because it uses a powerful, flexible framework that makes customizing possible. As such, Maltego can be adapted to your own, unique requirements.
