Narus
| Narus | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 1997 |
| Seat | Sunnyvale , California , United States |
| Number of employees | 150 |
| Branch | Monitoring technology defense industry |
| Website | www.narus.com |
Narus is the world's largest manufacturer of mass surveillance technology (English mass surveillance ). The Boeing subsidiary develops and sells, among other things, real-time analytics software for networks for signals intelligence applications ( enterprise class spyware ). The company hit the media in 2004 when it became known that a supercomputer system, the NarusInsight , was monitoring all data in near real time for the National Security Agency (NSA) on an Internet backbone in San Francisco . The current product (2013) Narus nSystem is supposed to provide a complete solution including a multidimensional database, compression of large amounts of data and a forensic portal.
history
In 1997 the company was initiated by an Israeli team led by Ori Cohen, as Vice President for Economic Development and Technology Research of the video networking company VDONet and Stas Khirman in Israel. Both have been working for Deutsche Telekom AG since March 2013 .
It has been known since 2004 that Narus was a supplier to the US secret service, when former director of the NSA William P. Crowell was appointed to the board of directors at Narus.
Narus has been a subsidiary of the US armaments and aircraft manufacturer Boeing since 2010.
Applications
Narus devices are used for the global Echelon communications interception system operated by the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada - the so-called Five Eyes Group .
Narus was best known for developing NarusInsight , a supercomputer system that was installed on AT & T's Internet backbone in San Francisco. In 2006 there was a legal battle between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AT&T, partly triggered by the former AT&T technician and later NSA whistleblower Mark Klein . Klein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation were able to prove that AT&T allowed the NSA to use Narus technology to route all telephone calls and IP data directly to the backbones. According to Klein, the NSA installed a Narus STA 6400 eavesdropping interface in a secret room, Room 641A , in the AT&T data center in San Francisco . Similar systems had already been installed in Seattle , San José , Los Angeles and San Diego .
Narus is the manufacturer of the technology for the surveillance program PRISM of the NSA, which was made famous by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in the wake of the surveillance scandal in 2013 .
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) to according to research by the German magazine, this fact bought through the "Society for Technical Solutions" (GTS) based in Frankfurt the art Narus components. Shortly after the company was founded in 2007, GTS was therefore the exclusive sales partner of Narus, from whom the BND is said to have bought the technology in 2008. As Andy Müller-Maguhn , member of the Chaos Computer Club and former director of ICANN explained in the television show, Narus does not offer any small surveillance solutions. Instead, the surveillance technology developed here can be used to record the entire communication of a specific network or state. The federal government responded to a small inquiry in September 2013 : "The federal security authorities do not use any products from Narus or Polygon."
literature
- James Bamford : The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America . Doubleday, 2008. ISBN 0-385-52132-4 .
- Anna Catherin Loll: Business is business - or not? Deutsche Telekom works with people and companies that have also supplied intelligence services such as the NSA. In: Die Zeit , November 21, 2013.
Web links
- Narus page at Buggedplanet, the wiki for the surveillance industry
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boeing: Narus. (No longer available online.) In: Boeing .com. Archived from the original on August 21, 2010 ; Retrieved September 17, 2011 : "A wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company, Narus is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., and supports a global base of government and commercial customers." Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Narus Networks Private Limited: Private Company Information. In: Bloomberg Businessweek . Retrieved September 17, 2011 : "Narus Networks Private Limited provides real-time network traffic and analytics software used to protect against cyber attacks and threats aimed at large Internet Protocol networks."
- ↑ a b c Holger Bleich: Global bugging mania - How digital communication is eavesdropped. (No longer available online.) In: c't 16/2013. heise, p. 112 , formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Video interview with James Bamford, about his book The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. In: Democracynow.org , October 14, 2008
- ^ Raphael Fogel: Ori Cohen, private eye. In: Haaretz . July 11, 2006, accessed on September 17, 2011 : "It was founded in 1997 by Dr Ori Cohen, Stas Khirman and four other guys in Israel."
- ↑ Ori Cohen. Linkedin Corporation, accessed July 28, 2013 .
- ↑ a b Ryan Singel: AT&T 'Spy Room' Documents Unsealed - You've Already Seen Them. In: Wired.com , June 13, 2007, documents were published: http://eff.org/legal/cases/att (SER marcus decl.pdf)
- ↑ Christoph Dernbach: How the secret services monitor Internet data. In: impulse.de , June 27, 2013
- ^ BND owns Prism technology. In: MDR.de , July 16, 2013 (PDF)
- ↑ German Federal Government : Answer of the Federal Government to the small question of the MPs Andrej Hunko, Jan Korte, Wolfgang Gehrcke, other MPs and the parliamentary group DIE LINKE. - Printed matter 17/14515 - . 2013, p. 17 ( bundestag.de [PDF]).
