Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) Services for UK Organisations
Find out what threat actors already know about your organisation. Our analyst-led OSINT services give you continuous visibility of your external digital footprint across the surface web, deep web and dark web, before that information is used against you.
What Is Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)?
Your organisation has a digital footprint that extends far beyond what you’re aware of. Information about your people, your infrastructure, your brand and your systems is publicly accessible, and most security teams have no visibility of what that information reveals until it becomes a problem.
Open source intelligence (OSINT) is how you change that. It’s the collection and analysis of publicly available information to produce actionable threat intelligence, giving your security team the same view an attacker has during reconnaissance, with the context needed to act on it.
- No defined scope, we look wherever the risk exists, not just where you tell us to look
- Analyst-led investigation, not just automated scanning
- Continuous monitoring so you find out as risks emerge, not months later
- Clear, actionable intelligence throughout the engagement
OSINT helps organisations maintain visibility of internet-facing assets and external exposures in line with NCSC guidance on asset management.
Our CREST and OSCP-certified team are ready to help find out what attackers can already see about your organisation.
What Does an OSINT Investigation Find?
Our OSINT investigations surface risks across your entire external digital footprint.
Here are some of the most common findings:
- Leaked credentials and malware stealer logs containing employee account data and session tokens
- Exposed or forgotten infrastructure, including subdomains vulnerable to takeover
- Brand abuse, fake domains, impersonation accounts and spoofed email domains
- Sensitive documents on third-party sites, contracts, internal files, confidential data
- Code repository exposures including leaked API keys and sensitive configuration data
- Threat actor discussions on dark web forums referencing your organisation or technologies
These findings don’t trigger internal alerts. They won’t show up in a pen test report. And in most cases, organisations have no visibility of them until it’s too late.
What Are the Benefits of OSINT Services?
If your organisation handles sensitive data, manages high-profile personnel, or operates in a regulated sector, your external digital footprint is a risk you can’t afford to ignore.
See your organisation through an attacker's eyes
OSINT gives you an independent, external view of what’s publicly accessible about your organisation, the same view an attacker has during reconnaissance.
Identify risks that traditional testing misses
Penetration testing works within a defined scope. OSINT surfaces risks that exist entirely outside those boundaries, leaked credentials, brand abuse, exposed infrastructure and more.
Act before the damage is done
Most organisations discover these risks after they’ve been exploited. Continuous OSINT monitoring means you find out first, with time to act.
How Our OSINT Service Works
Our OSINT service is analyst-led, structured, and built around your organisation’s specific risk profile. Here’s how a typical engagement runs:
- 1. Discovery We start with a consultation to understand your organisation's structure, areas of concern and intelligence priorities. This shapes everything that follows.
- 2. Onboarding We establish communication channels, agree reporting formats and gather the organisational information needed to support targeted investigations.
- 3. Assessment Where included in your package, our analysts conduct an in-depth investigation across publicly accessible sources, concluding with a formal Intelligence Report documenting findings, risk context and recommended actions.
- 4. Monitoring Data gathering and alerting runs continuously across all service levels. Where significant findings are identified, you're notified promptly with a summary and recommended next steps.
- 5. Continuity Delivered as a 12-month engagement, with findings from previous periods referenced to track how your external risk landscape evolves over time.
OSINT Service Tiers
Our OSINT service is available across four packages, each designed as a 12-month engagement combining dedicated assessment activities and ongoing monitoring. Speak to our team to find the right level of cover for your organisation.
Essential
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Continuous data gathering and automated alerting
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Surface, deep and dark web coverage
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Quarterly monitoring update communications
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Standard intelligence tooling
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12-month engagement
Core
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Everything in Essential
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5 analyst assessment days
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1 formal Intelligence Report
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Access to enhanced intelligence tooling including dark web sources and stealer log datasets
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12-month engagement
Professional
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Everything in Core
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10 analyst assessment days across 2 assessments
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2 formal Intelligence Reports
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Monthly monitoring update communications
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12 monitoring days across the engagement
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12-month engagement
Enterprise
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Everything in Professional
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24 monitoring days across the engagement
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External attack surface monitoring throughout the engagement
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Priority analyst access
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Maximum dark web and stealer log dataset coverage
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12-month engagement
Hear From Our Customers
We chose to work with Equilibrium because, from our very first meeting, it was clear they were knowledgeable, open, and genuinely cared about protecting their customers. Equilibrium carried out penetration testing on our network and provided a comprehensive report. This proved extremely valuable, as it gave us a clear roadmap with defined actions for our IT partner to follow. Having this type of testing carried out externally was also an important part of ensuring objectivity and thoroughness.
What stood out most was the clarity of information and the team’s clear, straightforward communication throughout the process. Equilibrium has given us greater confidence in our business continuity, and we would absolutely recommend them to others seeking Cyber Security services. They made the entire process simple, and their findings were clearly and effectively communicated.
Ryan Ginty
Managing Director, Auger Torque
Work With Equilibrium's Expert Threat Intelligence Analysts
Our OSINT services are delivered by experienced analysts with backgrounds across threat intelligence, offensive security and open-source research. We combine manual, analyst-led investigation with specialist intelligence tooling, giving you the depth of analysis that automated tools alone cannot provide.
- Analyst-led investigations, not just automated tooling
- Coverage across surface, deep and dark web sources
- Continuous data gathering and alerting across all service levels
- Actionable intelligence focused on your specific digital footprint
- Deep expertise across offensive security and threat intelligence
Frequently Asked Questions
Any organisation with an online presence can benefit from OSINT, but the service is particularly valuable for organisations that handle sensitive data, operate in regulated sectors, maintain a large external attack surface, or have a high public profile. This includes financial services, healthcare, legal, technology, education, government suppliers and critical infrastructure providers.
Penetration testing operates within a defined technical scope, testing specific systems, networks or applications you put forward. OSINT has no defined scope. It examines what is publicly accessible about your organisation across the surface web, deep web and dark web, surfacing risks that exist entirely outside the boundaries of traditional security testing.
For most organisations a continuous monitoring service is more effective than a point-in-time assessment. Your digital footprint changes constantly, new subdomains appear, credentials leak, brand abuse emerges. Our OSINT service is delivered as a 12-month engagement with continuous monitoring and regular reporting, ensuring risks are identified as they emerge rather than months after the fact.
Yes. OSINT involves the collection and analysis of publicly accessible information only. All information gathered through our OSINT service is legally accessible open-source data. No systems are accessed without authorisation and no techniques outside legal boundaries are used at any point.
Yes. Depending on the service level selected, our analysts monitor a range of surface web, deep web and dark web sources. This can include threat actor forums, marketplaces, breach datasets, malware stealer logs and other intelligence sources where information relating to your organisation may appear.