Overview#
An investigator receives a tip about a suspect. She has a name and a general location, but nothing else. Rather than spending hours manually searching social media and public web sources, she runs a digital footprint analysis. Within minutes, she has a consolidated view: social media profiles across multiple platforms, domain registrations linked to an email address, a timeline of public web activity, and a cross-platform identity correlation showing that three apparently separate accounts share the same behavioural fingerprint.
That aggregated picture would have taken days to build manually. It takes minutes with the Digital Footprint domain.
Key Features#
- Digital presence analysis across social media platforms.
- Web footprint aggregation from public sources.
- Domain registration and ownership tracking.
- Online activity timeline construction.
- Profile enrichment from OSINT providers.
- Cross-platform identity correlation.
- Digital footprint scoring and risk assessment.
- Organisation-scoped access control for sensitive profiles.
Use Cases#
Law enforcement investigators build comprehensive digital profiles for investigation subjects, identifying online aliases, associated accounts, and digital behavioural patterns that inform surveillance and interview strategies.
Financial crime analysts correlate online identities across multiple platforms to identify subjects operating under multiple aliases in different financial markets, connecting accounts that appear unrelated through shared digital behavioural indicators.
Intelligence agencies assess digital risk profiles for persons of interest before operational decisions, understanding the subject's online presence, public activity, and potential exposure of sensitive affiliations through their digital footprint.
Corporate security teams enrich person profiles with OSINT-sourced digital footprint data during due diligence investigations, identifying reputational risks, undisclosed affiliations, and potentially adversarial connections.
Integration#
Integrates with person profiles, OSINT providers, and profile management for comprehensive digital presence analysis.
Open Standards#
- GraphQL (June 2018 specification): all Digital Footprint queries and mutations are exposed through a Strawberry GraphQL schema, enabling structured discovery requests, progress polling, and profile management via a typed API.
- WHOIS (RFC 3912): domain registration and ownership lookups are performed through the WHOIS provider, retrieving registrant data for domains linked to investigation subjects.
- ISO 8601: all activity timeline events, verification timestamps, and discovery job status updates are serialised as ISO 8601 date-time strings, ensuring interoperability with downstream consumers.
- UUID (RFC 4122): every digital footprint record, discovery job, activity, connection, and screenshot is identified by a version 4 UUID, providing globally unique, collision-resistant identifiers.
- tel and mailto URI schemes (RFC 3966 / RFC 2368): phone and email identifiers are normalised as
tel:andmailto:URIs when constructing profile URLs for phone-based and email-based discovery results. - WebSocket (RFC 6455): real-time discovery progress updates are broadcast over a WebSocket channel, allowing clients to receive incremental results as the OSINT job traverses platforms.
- OAuth 2.0 / JWT Bearer (RFC 6749 / RFC 7519): all mutations that trigger or approve OSINT discovery are protected by JWT-based authentication, enforcing organisation-scoped access control on every request.
Last Reviewed: 2026-02-05 Last Updated: 2026-04-14