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OSINT Shield
Secure, isolated OSINT investigations without exposing your identity
Go where the investigation takes you, without taking your organisation’s digital footprint along for the ride.
OSINT Shield is a secure web research add-on for OSINT Investigator, giving investigators access to isolated, disposable browser environments for sensitive online research.
One additional layer, four ways it works
OSINT Shield builds on Kasm Workspaces to give investigators isolation, disposability, browser-level protection, and control over research egress.
Anonymous web research for sensitive OSINT investigations
Investigators don’t always want the target of an investigation, or the services surrounding it, to know who’s looking.
Traditional browsing can expose information that may help websites identify or correlate activity with a device, network, or organization. Even tools such as private browsing modes only address part of that problem.
OSINT Shield creates a separate environment for investigative research.
Using isolated Kasm Workspaces, analysts can conduct web research through remote environments and configurable egress locations rather than connecting investigative activity directly to their everyday workstation.
Your analysts can focus on the lead in front of them, not whether opening the next page could expose the organization behind the investigation.
- Fraud and financial crime investigations
- Law enforcement intelligence gathering
- Threat intelligence and cyber investigations
- Social media and online identity research
- Adversary infrastructure research
- Brand and intellectual property investigations
- Due diligence and corporate investigations
- Sensitive surface and dark web research
Disposable browser sessions that leave less behind
OSINT investigations can get messy. Your research environment doesn’t have to.
OSINT Shield uses disposable, containerized browser sessions designed to separate investigative activity from the local endpoint.
Each isolated environment can be created for the research task and destroyed when that session ends. This reduces persistent session data and helps prevent one investigation from contaminating another.
It also makes repeatable investigative workflows easier to manage. Rather than relying on improvised virtual machines, dedicated research laptops, or an investigator remembering to clear everything afterward, isolation becomes part of the research environment itself.
- Environment created for the research task
- Investigator works inside the isolated container
- Session ends when the task is complete
- Disposable environment is destroyed with its artifacts
Browser isolation for safer OSINT research
A phishing page doesn’t care whether the person clicking it is a detective, fraud analyst, or cybersecurity specialist.
Neither does malicious code.
OSINT Shield uses remote browser isolation to put distance between potentially risky online content and the investigator’s endpoint.
Web activity takes place inside a remote container. The investigator interacts with the session through their browser, while active website code stays within the isolated environment rather than executing directly on the local machine.
This helps protect investigative teams when accessing unfamiliar websites, suspicious links, adversarial infrastructure, and other higher-risk sources.
- Active website code
- Unfamiliar or suspicious links
- Adversarial infrastructure
- Higher-risk sources generally
Kasm Workspaces with configurable geographic egress
Sometimes where you appear to be researching from matters almost as much as what you’re researching.
OSINT Shield can use Kasm Workspaces infrastructure with configurable regions and egress points, helping investigators separate research traffic from their organization’s normal network presence.
That can be valuable when investigating location-sensitive content, assessing how resources appear from different regions, or conducting research where organizational attribution could affect the intelligence being collected.
It gives investigators another useful layer of separation between the researcher, the organization, and the target environment.
- Investigating location-sensitive content
- Assessing how resources appear from different regions
- Organizational attribution could affect the intelligence collected
Reduce direct interaction with untrusted content
With OSINT Shield, teams can reduce direct interaction between untrusted web content and organizational devices. That additional separation can help reduce exposure to:
Malware and malicious websites
Research suspicious online resources without directly executing their web content on the investigator’s workstation.
Phishing links
Inspect questionable links inside an isolated environment rather than opening them directly on an agency or corporate endpoint.
Browser-based threats
Contain potentially hostile browser activity within a disposable remote session.
Simplified Case Management
Reduced reliance on fragmented spreadsheets or manual documentation
OSINT Shield isn’t intended to replace OSINT Investigator. It strengthens it.
OSINT Investigator brings together open-source data, real-time feeds, geolocation, infrastructure intelligence, social media research, dashboards, mapping, and analytical tools. OSINT Shield adds a secure research environment for the moments when an investigator needs to move beyond collected intelligence and interact with the open web. Think of it as the protective layer around the hands-on research stage.
1. Research
Launch a dedicated isolated browser environment when an investigation requires direct web research and evaluation.
2. Collect
3. Analyze
Bring intelligence back into your wider OSINT workflow to identify relationships, locations, timelines, infrastructure, and patterns.
4. Report
Built for investigators who can’t afford unnecessary exposure
Law enforcement and federal investigations
Research subjects, online identities, suspicious domains, emerging threats, and digital networks while adding separation between investigative browsing and organizational infrastructure.
Fraud and financial crime teams
Investigate suspicious companies, online storefronts, identities, websites, and digital footprints without conducting every search directly from your corporate network.
Intelligence and security analysts
Explore emerging threats and adversarial infrastructure through temporary research environments designed for sensitive web investigations.
Private and corporate investigators
Conduct online research with stronger separation between your everyday workstation and the digital sources being examined.
OSINT tools are very good at helping investigators find information.
But finding a lead often creates the next question: what happens when you need to follow it?
OSINT Shield gives your team a controlled environment for that next stage.
Extend Altia OSINT Investigator with secure hands-on web research. No collection method removes every form of online attribution or investigative risk — OSINT Shield is designed to give professional teams stronger technical separation and greater control over how web research is conducted.
With OSINT Shield, organizations can:
Secure OSINT research without slowing investigators down
Security controls only work well when people can actually use them.
That’s why OSINT Shield keeps the investigator experience straightforward. Analysts access their remote research environment through a modern web browser, without needing to turn every investigation into an IT project.
Behind that familiar experience, Kasm Workspaces provides the containerized infrastructure that separates the session from the local endpoint.
Investigators get the environment they need. Security teams get stronger separation and control.
API-powered integration with Kasm Workspaces
OSINT Shield uses Kasm Workspaces API capabilities to bring isolated research environments into the Altia OSINT Investigator ecosystem.
Kasm’s Developer API supports programmatic management of workspace operations, including sessions and associated controls. This allows isolated research capabilities to form part of a wider investigative workflow rather than operating as another disconnected tool.
For investigative teams, the important bit is simple: secure web research becomes an extension of the OSINT workflow you’re already using.
A strong OSINT investigation rarely follows a perfectly straight line.
A social post leads to a username. The username leads to another profile. That profile reveals a domain. The domain points toward infrastructure, an organization, another identity or something nobody expected when the case began. That’s the nature of investigative work.
Altia OSINT Investigator helps teams discover, connect, visualize, and analyze those signals. OSINT Shield helps protect investigators when the trail requires direct online research.
Together, they provide a broader OSINT environment for collecting intelligence, following digital leads, analyzing connections, and conducting sensitive research with greater separation from organizational systems.
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