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...]
ATIS UHER: Lawful Intercept With German Engineering, Swiss Precision
C5IS reviews Germany’s ATIS UHER, one of the world’s longest-running acts in lawful intercept (LI) and recording devices for military, public safety and air traffic control. Think German science & engineering and a number of feats come to mind: the theory of relativity, the modern binary system, discovery of radio waves, the first telephone transmitter and for that … [Read more...]
Packet Forensics: DPI With Law Enforcement — and NSA — in Mind
To law enforcement and government agencies, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is an essential commodity offered by scores of vendors with little to separate one from another -- unless perhaps the provider has the cachet of a Packet Forensics. Based in Tempe, Arizona, USA, Packet Forensics has built a successful livelihood around features that place it in the top ranks of companies … [Read more...]
Rohde & Schwarz’s ipoque: A “Class Act” in DPI
Time was when Rohde & Schwarz’s subsidiary ipoque, one of the foremost makers of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solutions, was fairly open about the use of its technology for law intercept and national security. Then came the Snowden controversy. From that point on, where surveillance was concerned, one might say that ipoque went opaque. The company remains a strong player … [Read more...]
NFV and the Future of Surveillance
At the last ISS World, Utimaco gave a presentation that touched on network functions virtualization or NFV. A pair of Aussies in the audience urged the speaker to “get on with it” as their own exec was itching to take the podium. It’s a pity no one intervened to keep the Utimaco thought leader on stage. NFV and the connectivity cost revolution behind it appear destined to upend … [Read more...]