Keep Your OPSEC Sharp: A Field Guide from Our Partner Forensic OSINT

If you do OSINT or investigative work, your biggest risk often isn’t the target, it’s your own digital footprint. A single slip-up, a logged-in personal account, a synced bookmark, a reused username, can bridge your real identity to your research and undo months of careful work. That’s the problem our partner Forensic OSINT tackles in a new field guide built around one core habit: compartmentalization.

The guide walks through the full picture: separating personal and investigative browsers, devices, and accounts; hardening the basics like password managers, 2FA, and disk encryption; what not to post (photo metadata, boarding passes, “on vacation” photos); and OSINT-specific practices like sock-puppet hygiene and attribution resistance. It closes with a self-monitoring toolkit for auditing your own exposure and a repeatable quarterly workflow for running OSINT on yourself.

Forensic OSINT is our partner, and this is exactly the kind of practical resource worth bookmarking. Read the full guide and grab the free printable checklist here: OSINT OPSEC Field Guide.