Philip Ingram: Using HUMINT in Cyberspace Is Best to Fight Extremists Online

... terrorist organisations. It is a new company, but to prove our capability, we penetrated 140 invitation-only groups associated with ISIS on Telegram. We had also infiltrated their previous activities on the Dark Web and on Twitter. This has given me a unique insight ... ... very technically difficult to break into these channels, so the method I have found successful is using human intelligence (HUMINT) techniques in the cyber environment. Essentially, this means running intelligence agents and spies inside the online forums....