As 2016 draws to a close, the state of cybersecurity in the United States remains a mixed bag. At the highest level - protection of government intelligence and infrastructure - some progress accrued toward adoption of standards to protect government agencies from network penetration. Elsewhere it is a grim picture. In the commercial realm, widespread "cyber insecurity" … [Read more...]
Top Surveillance Companies of 2016
Welcome to our choices for Top Surveillance Companies of 2016, the latest iteration of an annual and popular exercise conducted for members of C5IS. This year’s list includes well-known brands as well some that are less familiar. All earned gold cups in 2016. Our recommendation: Get to know them in 2017. As a natural offshoot of market competition, the majority of ISS … [Read more...]
Kofax Deep Web Harvesting: Still Going Strong Under Lexmark
Partnership with Palantir gives Kofax Deep Web Harvesting an important edge: detailed visualization. When Lexmark completed its acquisition of Kofax in May 2015, no public mention was made of Kofax Deep Web Harvesting, an invaluable OSINT tool used by military, government and law enforcement agencies worldwide. But rest assured that Lexmark’s acquired OSINT asset is alive, … [Read more...]
Taiwan’s Decision Group: Leading the AsiaPac Race for DPI
Three AsiaPac DPI vendors dominate the market for surveillance-focused Deep Packet Inspection in AsiaPac and beyond: Taiwan’s Decision Group, Singapore’s Expert Team and Korea’s Hanvit. Although small compared to vendors of multipurpose standalone DPI solutions such as Sandvine, Allot, Cisco, Procera, Qosmos and others, each has carved out a healthy niche in the DPI for … [Read more...]
TraceSpan – Where Fibre and LTE Monitoring Meet
Are LTE and fibre network surveillance worlds apart, requiring separate high-end monitoring appliances? Not necessarily, when the solution solutions provider is TraceSpan. Whilst some ISS hardware vendors specialise in surveillance of fibre nets and others in UMTS, 3G and LTE, TraceSpan goes where these seemingly disparate worlds can cross paths: the network-agnostic realm of … [Read more...]