Are LTE and fibre network surveillance worlds apart, requiring separate high-end monitoring appliances? Not necessarily, when the solution solutions provider is TraceSpan. Whilst some ISS hardware vendors specialise in surveillance of fibre nets and others in UMTS, 3G and LTE, TraceSpan goes where these seemingly disparate worlds can cross paths: the network-agnostic realm of … [Read more...]
UK Investigatory Powers Bill: Latest Bonfire in EU’s Pro-Privacy Conflagration?
Late last week Britain’s Parliament approved the Investigatory Powers Bill (IP Bill), triggering wails of protest from critics who immediately labeled the law “a privacy disaster” and “the most extreme surveillance law in the history of Western Democracy.” High on the list of complaints are the British law’s authorization of bulk metadata collection from any/all Internet … [Read more...]
Junos Packet Vision: Lawful Intercept or “California Dreamin’?”
C5IS reviews Junos Packet Vision, Juniper Networks' play in the CALEA compliance lawful intercept arena. Quiz time: Aside from making routers, what do Cisco, Juniper Networks and Hewlett-Packard have in common? Answer: The Big 3 router producers have all been hacked by the NSA at various times, all maintain a strong pro-privacy/anti-surveillance position - and even so, all … [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...]
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...]