Qintel creating intelligence solutions to assist the DOD: Weapon of the Week

To attend a defense exhibition is to be subjected to a lot of companies looking to land some

DOD business. It is, for lack of a better term, a battle of eye candy

And at the recently wrapped Navy League Sea Airspace 2025, one company's display definitely

caught our attention. Because, well, it was awesome. Meet QIntel, our Weapon of the Week

As far as conversation starters go, Booth 1747, home to the team from Qintel, was a pretty good one

With bright, bold colors and characters seemingly cut straight from a Frank Miller graphic novel

we had to stop and find out what their story is. That's how we met Keith Malarski, a former FBI agent and now Qintel's global ambassador

Our goal is really to track adversaries, and we do that through collections in cyberspace

We collect, you know, communications, IP addresses, things like that. But really our goal is to track adversaries

So APT or nation state actors, criminal hackers, terrorists, that is our bread and butter

And when you talk about, you know, gathering the intel on the IP addresses, are you like searching your Facebook pages

You know what I mean? Can you talk about the process of what information you're looking to gather

Yeah, so what we do is, it's all OSINT that we collect, so it could be breach data that

is being sold on the cyber underground it could be scraping a cyber underground forum or getting these communications from the bad guys or looking at forensic copies of servers and seeing what the adversaries are doing

So those type of collections. A quick look at Qintel's equally eye-catching website reveals a glimpse into their ethos

to deliver government-grade cyber intelligence on the most critical threats to our future

To this point, Malarsky says most of the work is with elite law enforcement agencies

agencies all over the world. But they are working towards building bridges with U.S. government

intel gatherers as well. We want to enable them. We want to provide them with as much intelligence

that's out there that can be collected into open source and then allow them to use their other

sensitive techniques to really take it to that next level. So, you know, from like a DOD standpoint

being able to get you up to a trigger point for then you to use your techniques to then take it

across to that next level. One thing Qintel might have going for it is not only their track record

but the recent change in American leadership. You know, the Secretary of Defense just said

you know, that they want to use some, instead of developing platforms, use off-the-shelf things. And

we think that we're really uniquely positioned to do that because we have that platform already built

And also really expanding into the commercial sector, too, for network defense, for Fortune 500

companies that are out there as well. Well, Qintel did not have any major news to share in the wake

of Sea Airspace. The Pittsburgh-based startup did say their presence there sparked a lot of

positive conversations as they looked to build those inroads with government agencies