You're listening to the CyberWire X, a series of specials where we highlight important security topics affecting security professionals worldwide.

I'm Rick Howard, the chief security officer, chief analyst, and senior fellow at the CyberWire, and in today's episode

we're talking about how Cyber and Physical Security teams are leveraging open source

intelligence.

A program note, each CyberWire X special features two segments.

In the first part we'll hear from a couple of industry experts on the topic at hand,

and in the second part we'll hear from our show's sponsor from their point of view.

And since I brought it up, here's a word

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