What is OSINT?
OSINT: Open Source Intelligence is a technique used to gather open-source data from various freely available resources for a specific purpose. OSINT is not limited to Cyber Security, it's Scope is wider. The main purpose of Open Source Intelligence is to Gather Data that can be used for investigation. The data we gather using OSINT may be different for different purposes and it differs from person to person but the techniques we use are same.

Suppose a journalist can gather data for checking fake news, a pentester gathers data for finding loopholes, while big companies gather data using OSINT about their competitors and analyze the data about their customer's behaviour, sales, business logic, management and so on then they try to follow the same strategy with little modification to improve their businesses.

While most intelligence aspects are for targeting of bad guys and bad places, OSINT is for targeting specific topics. OSINT methods are the way we acquire information related to the topic before applying analysis. production and dissemination.