A corporate security team needs to monitor public social media and news sites for early warnings about protests near their overseas manufacturing facilities. They have limited staff and want a single web-based dashboard that can track multiple keywords and locations, send email alerts, and allow team members to collaborate on flagged posts. Which approach best meets their requirement?

Manually check each social media site and news outlet daily and compile findings into a spreadsheet shared via email.

Set up a custom web scraper that downloads all posts containing the facility names and stores them in a local database.

Configure a third-party social media monitoring platform with saved searches for facility names and nearby city names, set up alert rules, and share a team dashboard.

Use a free keyword alert service that only sends daily digest emails for a single keyword.

An analyst is tracking the movement of a military convoy in a conflict zone. They need to identify potential routes and checkpoints. Which open-source sources would be most useful?

Social media posts from the convoy members themselves.

Public road maps, satellite imagery, and local news reports about road conditions or checkpoints.

International shipping schedules and port data.

Weather forecasts and terrain maps.

An analyst is setting up a monitoring dashboard to track discussions about a new software vulnerability. The analyst wants to capture posts that mention the vulnerability by its CVE ID or its common nickname, but exclude posts that are just about the vendor's unrelated product updates. Which configuration best achieves this?

Create two separate alerts: one for "CVE-2024-1234" and one for "Log4Shell", and manually review all results.

Create a single query: "CVE-2024-1234" OR "Log4Shell" and add a negative filter for "patch" and "update".

Use a single query: "CVE-2024-1234" AND "Log4Shell" and rely on the tool's default settings.

Set up an alert for the vendor's product name and then manually filter out vulnerability-related posts.

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A corporate security team needs to monitor public social media and news sites for early warnings about protests near their overseas manufacturing facilities. They have limited staff and want a single web-based dashboard that can track multiple keywords and locations, send email alerts, and allow team members to collaborate on flagged posts. Which approach best meets their requirement?
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