Open Security Intelligence, analysis and countermeasures

In the past decades, the size of the internet and digital world has grown enormously. Today's businesses are operating entirely online and thus bringing with them all of their costumers' personal details. Digital profiling is a practice that immerse from different necessities such a criminal profiling for proactively identifying malicious actions but also for users profiling for marketing campaigns. In this research we tackling the different digital profiling techniques and methodologies in order to analyze and propose potential counter measures which may aspect the success rate of identifying and profiling an individual. Based on that, we are analyzing OSINT tools, past research papers and existing methodologies in an attempt to aggregate the techniques used and comment on possible ways that might make the profiling phase a step more difficult. Finally, we also propose potential improvements that can be applied in the future that will assist the scope of this research