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Mapping relationships between people, accounts, and entities as a network graph.
Link analysis is a visualisation and analytical technique that draws entities — people, accounts, domains, organisations — as nodes and their relationships as edges. Clusters reveal groups, and highly connected nodes reveal the key connectors worth investigating first.
It is the workhorse visualisation of complex OSINT investigations, turning a mass of connections into a legible map of who relates to whom.
Moving from one piece of information to the next until a single clue becomes a full picture.
Determining who is really behind an anonymous account, campaign, or piece of infrastructure.
The practice of collecting and analysing publicly available information to produce actionable intelligence.