C5IS reviews NeoSoft, a Zurich-based provider of tactical and strategic mobile location and monitoring systems. Switzerland is renowned for its privacy laws -- and as a sanctuary for companies attracted by the country’s laissez-faire attitude toward business. Privacy applies not only to individuals but to the right of companies to conduct their businesses without overly … [Read more...]
Silent Circle’s U.S. Exit — What Was the Point?
C5IS reviews Silent Circle, a maker of encryption to protect mobile calling, messaging and videoconferencing, and the “surveillance-proof” Blackphone. In business as in life, what often seems coincidence is in fact deliberate timing. In August 2013, Silent Circle without warning cancelled its popular Silent Mail service, characterizing e-mail as the sole point of … [Read more...]
Can Polaris Wireless Dislocate Harris IMSI Catchers?
C5IS reviews Polaris Wireless, a provider of innovative RF signature technology challenging the economic status quo of mobile location. As law enforcement agencies look to purchase mobile location equipment, or upgrade systems, one of the first choices that comes to mind is the venerable IMSI catcher. First developed by Germany’s Rohde & Schwarz in 2003, IMSI catchers … [Read more...]
Surveillance Vendor Reviews: C5IS Nears the Century Mark
In advance of our one-year anniversary, C5IS observes an important milestone: publication of nearly 100 surveillance vendor reviews spanning market leaders -- and a few also-rans -- in the global electronic surveillance industry. Our surveillance vendor reviews cover companies that provide one or more of the following products and services: trusted third party services for … [Read more...]
Paladion: Where Malware and Information Security Meet
With the infusion of US $10 million last June from long time investor Nadathur Holdings, India’s Paladion is on track to become a leading information security player. Who better to devise state-of-the-art defenses of priceless data assets than a company that knows malware from experience: through its use against criminals and terrorists? Many a provider of lawful intercept … [Read more...]