Some 14 years after its founding, ISS World has reached a milestone. Widely recognized as the center point where the world’s finest experts in SIGINT, COMINT, ELINT, OSINT and all other forms Intelligence Support Systems (ISS) convene to share ideas and move product, ISS World has always managed to be in the right place at the right time. At the moment that means it is … [Read more...]
NETI: Government-Run ISS by NATO’s Fickle Friend, Hungary
NETI IT Consulting Ltd. is a versatile surveillance vendor run by the government of Hungary. While the company is ostensibly an exclusive holding of a non-profit entity -- the Theodore Puskás Foundation (PTA) -- the two are one and the same entity, share identical “corporate” officers and one website, and report directly up to the e-Government Center in the Office of the Prime … [Read more...]
GOS Systems: All That Glitters is not Touchstone Gold
GOS Systems, the UK-based provider of surveillance and secure communications systems, has experienced a turbulent year. Their story is a case study in what can go wrong when a good company is taken over by an outsider with zero experience in the industry. The long and the short of it: While GOS Systems was making the rounds of international ISS events presenting its DIAL … [Read more...]
Sqrll Cyber Defense: Begin With the Right Questions
Interviews with Sqrll co-founder Ely Khan invariably mention his background as Director of Cybersecurity at the White House. Accumulo-based cybersecurity leader Sqrll launched in 2012. The White House suffered a notorious cyberattack in 2014. If White House data wasn’t protected by a system with the proven quals of Sqrll, why not? Welcome to the contrary worlds of top … [Read more...]
Endgame Systems: Isn’t Zero Day Still the End Game?
A little more than two years have passed since Marine Corps veteran Nate Fick took the helm as CEO at Endgame Systems. Fick has turned Endgame toward providing vulnerability intelligence and away from the company’s once-vaunted Zero Day capabilities. The question is whether Endgame would entirely abandon such a valuable asset. Answer: They’d rather not say. At the heart of … [Read more...]