Agilent's spin off of Keysight unleashed a giant in the military RF monitoring marketplace, with 12 R & D centers worldwide and 9,500 employees including the largest sales and support staff in its sector. Keysight's emergence as a solo player focused on electronic test & measurement, RF signal analysis represents an important and beneficial development to the … [Read more...]
Elbit Systems’ CYBERBIT: Not Your Father’s Lawful Intercept
When Israel's Elbit Systems purchased the Cyber and Intelligence Division of NICE Systems last year, Elbit's mission was to leverage the new asset to elevate its CYBERBIT subsidiary into a global powerhouse in two areas: cyber security for the enterprise, and lawful interception for government agencies and police. They've succeeded at both, and in remarkable ways. On the law … [Read more...]
Equation Group and the TAO of Advanced Persistent Threat
In August 2016 the Equation Group, aka the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) division of the NSA, attracted unwanted headlines with reports that anonymous attackers had hacked into the group and made off with critical intelligence plus high-end malware. The purported hackers, known as “The Shadow Brokers,” made their success known by publishing 300 megabytes of unencrypted data … [Read more...]
TelcoBridges Lawful Intercept for VoIP – One Box to Rule Them All
TelcoBridges of Canada is a maker of hardware and software systems for communications service providers, with deployments in over 100 nations. Established in 2002, the company specializes in session border controllers (SBCs) and VoIP media control gateways (MCGs). Privately held TelcoBridges competes with renowned brands such as Sonus, Juniper, ASTRAN, Cisco, Oracle, Edgewater … [Read more...]
Network Functions Virtualization for ISS – Still Up in the Clouds
Of the many “disruptive” technologies to emerge in recent years, few have aroused greater fanfare -- or confusion and even anxiety in certain quarters -- than Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), the proposed migration of network tasks from proprietary hardware to more economical “virtual” systems comprised of software and white boxes. Stripping away the tech jargon that … [Read more...]