Cyber-security and sustainable development: The case of Dubai

Abstract

In the Security and Information Analysis community, OSINT (Open Sources of Information Knowledge) plays an essential role for national security, for its insight but also contextual process. OSINT is of low cost in acquiring information and can have its valuable use. Morally and ethically, it helps share information and knowledge, avoiding "whistleblowers. " Many analysts today use among other sources open internet information sources, to draw materials that may be used for analysis or practical purposes, among them, cyber-materials, market software, conference proceedings, journals, books, profiles of people, and methodologies of advanced technical and/or technological information and opensource reports from think tanks or major institutions/organizations.