C5IS reviews SYSTRAN, a market leader in machine translation for Military and Government Intelligence clients worldwide. While 100G monitoring systems can intercept data at unprecedented speeds, merely capturing content is, of course, not equivalent to understanding it. We live in a world of 6,500 languages. Of these, 10 are spoken by half the world’s population. Some 2,000 … [Read more...]
Will UK Anti-Encryption Rules Backfire on Lawmakers?
Last week’s leak of draft regulations for implementing the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) shed new light on two of the more controversial aspects of the proposed UK anti-encryption rules: mandatory disabling of encrypted services and “equipment interference.” The rules require service providers to “remove any electronic protection applied by or on behalf of the … [Read more...]
Lumacron – Lighting Up Enemy Forces and Terrorists at Wire Speed
C5IS reviews Lumacron, a provider of FPGA-based solutions for 100% signal capture – led by industry legend Ian Graham. Ask any military intelligence or law enforcement agent what their greatest challenge is, and they might respond, “packet loss on high-speed networks.” By the same token, the switch from 1G to 10G, 40G or 100G networks can be a problem of comparable magnitude … [Read more...]
Verint Situational Awareness Platform – “Safe City”
C5IS reviews the Verint Situational Awareness Platform, a central hub integrating ISS, social media, OSINT and video surveillance for "safe city." Earlier this month, Verint made a big “to do” at the ISC West security conference about one of the company’s prize solutions - the Verint Situational Awareness Platform (VSAP), designed to help assure the “safe cities” … [Read more...]
Surveillance as Sci Fi – Facebook’s Bid to Read Brain Waves
In which we examine what may be the next wave of surveillance - or merely Sci Fi - Facebook's efforts to build sensors that translate thought to text. Incredible technology developments that arise in the private sector often find their way into the surveillance arena, or vice versa - government spawns innovation, as in the case of Darktrace. The dawning of such … [Read more...]