Open Source Intelligence Market Size, Share, and Growth Report 2032

Open Source Intelligence Market Size

The global open source intelligence market size was worth around USD 7.74 billion in 2023 and is predicted to grow to around USD 42.08 billion by 2032 with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of roughly 20.70% between 2024 and 2032.

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Open Source Intelligence Market: Overview

Open-source intelligence has defined by the U.S. Intelligence Community. Foreign Broadcast Monitoring Service (FBMS) is an agency for OSINT which is accountable for the monitoring of foreign broadcasts. The 9/11 Commission suggested the formation of an open-source intelligence agency. The U.S. Open-source intelligence (OSINT) collects data from publicly available sources such as television, radio, newspapers, commercial databases, internet, media, and others. 

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Open Source Intelligence Market: Drivers and Restraints

The major factor driving the growth of global open source intelligence market is increasing amount of data across the globe. The use of social networking has increased a large amount of user-generated content. The content may include images, videos, personal, and professional information. In addition, increasing wireless networking technologies and rising adoption of cloud platform across the globe are the key factors that will trigger the growth of the open source intelligence. Internet proliferation in emerging countries has increased a large amount of unstructured and structured data. It is estimated that around 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second by 2020. The OSINT autonomous tools help to provide real-time analysis to the organization. Owing to rising demand for real-time valuable data the demand for the open source intelligence market is increasing.

Advancement in big data, data analytics, text analytics, and artificial intelligence will open up key opportunities for the open source intelligence market.

Open Source Intelligence Market: Segmentation

The deployment segment includes cloud and on-premises. On-premises segment held the largest market share of 59% in 2023. The driving attribute for the on-premise segment is it requires only one-time initial investment. Only users have rights for data, hardware, and software platforms and they decide the configuration, upgrades, and system changes. Cloud segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 25% in between 2024 and 2032. Cloud-based solutions provide many benefits to the organization in terms of storage and flexibility. It provides a virtual platform to store data. By using OSINT, companies can access data remotely for analysis purpose. The cloud platform provides access to the device manufacturer and service providers for advanced analytics and monitoring.

The source segment is divided into public government data, professional and academic publications, commercial data, grey literature, media, and internet. The internet segment is anticipated to grow with the highest CAGR of 25% over the forecast period. Media is the second major source to collect data. Media segment acquired 12.29% of the market share in 2023; it includes newspapers, magazines, radio, and television. Rising media industry is expected to boost the revenue of the market. Public government data includes data budgets, public government reports, telephone directories, hearings, press conferences, and speeches. This is an official source which is publicly accessible and may be used openly and freely. This data can be analyzed by OSINT to gather valuable information. 

Security type segment covers data analytics, text analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, human intelligence, content intelligence, dark web analysis. Artificial intelligence segment is anticipated to grow with the highest CAGR of 26% from 2024 to 2032. The big data segment held the largest markets share of 23% in 2023. Increasing business interest in advanced analytics for future estimations, enterprises are using OSINT for analyzing a large amount of raw data and obtain valuable data which will be useful in increasing the profit of the business.

By application, national security held the major market share of 35.12% in 2023. OSINT is mostly used in business intelligence functions, national security, and law enforcement. The national security applies open-source intelligence to investigate, predict, prevent, and prosecute the criminals including terrorists.

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Open Source Intelligence Market: Regional Analysis

North America has occupied the largest market share of 31% in 2023. Following the 9/11 attacks, there has been an increased adoption of the security policies and open source intelligence agency was introduced. Increasing cyber attacks across North America is expected to boost the market. However, Asia Pacific region is anticipated to grow with highest CAGR of 27% between 2024 and 2032. This rapid growth of the market in the Asia Pacific is due to increased adoption of digitalization which, in turn, has created huge volumes of data. 

Open Source Intelligence Market: Competitive Outlook

The report also covers detailed competitive outlook including company profiles of the key participants operating in the global open source intelligence market. The key players included in this market are:

• 3i-MIND Technologies GmbH
• Alfresco Software Inc.
• Ascertain Solutions
• CybelAngel
• Dassault Systèmes
• DATALKZ
• Digimind
• Expert System S.p.A.
• KB Crawl
• Kriptia
• Octogence Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
• OSINT Solutions Inc.
• Palantir Technologies
• Qwarie
• Raytheon Company
• Recorded Future Inc.
• Sail Labs Technology GmbH
• Semantic
• SensePost
• Thales Group
• Verint Systems
• Vesper Group AB.

The report segments the global open source intelligence market as follows:

By Deployment Type

• Cloud 
• On-Premises

By Source 

• Public Government Data
• Professional And Academic Publications
• Commercial Data
• Grey Literature
• Media
• Internet

By Security Type 

• Data Analytics
• Text Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big Data
• Human Intelligence
• Content Intelligence
• Dark Web Analysis

By Application 

• Private Sector
• Public Sector
• Military And Defense
• Homeland Security
• National Security

By Region

• North America
  • The U.S.
• Europe
  • UK
  • France
  • Germany
• Asia Pacific
  • China
  • Japan
  • India
• Latin America
  • Brazil
• The Middle East and Africa

What We Provide

• The report covers forecast and analysis for the open source intelligence market on a global and regional level.
• The report includes the positive and the negative factors that are influencing the growth of the market.
• Future market opportunities are discussed in the report.
• Data included in the report is in terms of value (USD Million).
• The revenue generated by the prominent industry players has been analyzed in the report.
• The market numbers have been calculated using top-down and the bottom-up approaches.
• The open source intelligence market has been analyzed using Porter’s Five Forces Analysis.
• The global open source intelligence market is segmented on the basis of deployment type, source, security type, application, and region.
• All the segments have been evaluated based on the present and the future trends.
• The report deals with the in-depth quantitative and qualitative analyses of the open source intelligence market.
• The report includes the detailed company profiles of the prominent market players.