OWASP Open Source Intelligence Standard
An open, vendor-neutral standard for verifying open-source intelligence. OOVS v0.1.0 defines ten testable requirements published simultaneously as normative text and machine-readable data, with one acceptance test per requirement, a portable assessment schema, and continuous validation.
The project welcomes implementation results, requirement feedback, technique records, testing scenarios, mappings, translations, and review from safety, privacy, human-rights, accessibility, and public-interest perspectives.
Reviewers from different organisations, regions, and legal contexts are especially valuable, because independent assessment is what turns a published standard into a usable one.
Public collaboration uses synthetic, consented, anonymised, or non-sensitive material only. Material concerning minors or vulnerable people must never be posted in public project channels.
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Project Leaders
Manish Tripathy
Project Leader
Project leader for the OWASP Open Source Intelligence Standard. Designed the OOVS assurance baseline and the specification-as-code pipeline that keeps its normative text, machine-readable requirements, acceptance tests, and hash-pinned release manifests provably consistent in continuous integration. Interests: OSINT verification, provenance and source-origin independence, attribution, and accountable use of AI in analytic workflows.
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Requirements
- Reading and applying the standard: no tooling required
- Optional local validation: Python 3.10 or newer
- Optional local validation: jsonschema 4.25.1 (pinned)
- Validation runs offline; no network access required
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