Recorded Future is a prominent vendor in the security sector, promoting its Web Intelligence Engine as the means to continuously scout every corner of the Web for potential cyber threats. Less well-recognized but equally important, the company’s many capabilities can be turned to the needs of ensuring national security through Intelligence Support Systems (ISS). In addition … [Read more...]
Automated Cybersecurity: Machines Still Have a Long Way To Go
With summer 2016 coming to an end it is fitting to recap one of the season's signature events that, while now largely forgotten, may portend breakneck change in the years to come: DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge, the world's first attempt at automated cybersecurity in the never ending war against bugs, viruses, Zero Days and malware. Nearly 30 months after announcing … [Read more...]
Golden Oldie: Cisco 6500 Still a Mainstay of Lawful Intercept
For all the public criticism Cisco levels at government surveillance, a key product -- the Cisco 6500 Router -- remains a bulwark of lawful intercept in the U.S. As the dominant provider of Internet service provider routers Cisco has little choice in the matter. As long as the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) remains the law of the land, all networks … [Read more...]
How Munk Outed NSO Group Yet Boosted Israel’s Malware King
For obvious reasons, most companies that specialize in "ethical malware" like to fly below the radar. Yet invariably, providers of intrusive systems are"outed" to the public sooner or later. Sometimes such exposure comes about purely by accident. Other times it results from the work of equally talented spyware experts working for the other side. We have seen examples of both in … [Read more...]
Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics – What’s Best for ISS?
Writing in The European Business Review, Big Data pundit Eric Siegal opines that predictive analytics is the backbone of the NSA's intelligence apparatus. Taking the podium at ISS World Americas today, Israel's Fifth Dimension takes a stand on deep learning, a branch of machine learning and AI, being the future of intelligence support systems that not only identify … [Read more...]