C5IS explores the role of Intrado, OSINT and Big Data analytics in protecting public safety -- and the lives of law enforcement officers. Any way you slice it, 2015 was a hard year, at least on the surface, for the U.S. surveillance sector: Congress passed the USA Freedom Act, doing away with bulk metadata collection under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. The U.S. … [Read more...]
Rayzone InterApp for Wi-Fi Interception: Wintego Lookalike?
When the Rayzone InterApp Wi-Fi “cloud and app” interception product debuted at Paris Milipol in late November, it was hailed as a game-changing innovation in tactical mobile interception. InterApp can pull any data off a smartphone linked to a public Wi-Fi network, including a target’s email, texts, images, files, IMEI and MAC address -- and track & identify hundreds of … [Read more...]
2016 C5IS Predictions
As a rule, C5IS eschews predictions. The vagaries of life and business tend to make fools of seers. Much of what comes to pass defies the “science” of data analytics, arriving out of the blue as a total surprise that no one and no system has the power to foretell. Sometimes the best forecasts are contrarian -- “bets” deemed by most to be statistically the least likely to … [Read more...]
Reborn in the U.S.A: The Long, Winding Story of Gamma Group
Gamma Group and The Hacking Team are without question the two most prestigious providers of network injection solutions, surveillance industry jargon for malware used to take over targets’ communications devices. Yet while their products are similar in many ways, the companies and their histories are completely unlike. One is an open book -- the other a dark hole on … [Read more...]
EZchip: Accelerated Data Interception
C5IS reviews EZchip, a provider of ARM-based multicore processors that speed the capture of network data for DPI solutions. As networks move to ever higher speeds, law enforcement and government agencies find themselves in a contest to keep interception solutions up to par with carriers bent on hitting multi-gigabit rates. Into this race step companies like Israel’s EZchip … [Read more...]