Verint Systems
| Verint Systems Inc.
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| legal form | Incorporated |
| ISIN | US92343X1000 |
| founding | 2002 |
| Seat | Melville , United States |
| management | Dan Bodner, President and CEO |
| Number of employees | 5,200 |
| sales | 1.135 billion USD |
| Branch | software |
| Website | www.verint.com |
| As of January 31, 2018 | |
Verint Systems is a US company for the development and sale of hardware and software for signals intelligence . The headquarters are in Melville in Huntington, New York . Verint employs 5,200 people worldwide, was a subsidiary of the Israeli software company Comverse Technology for many years and traded under the name Comverse Infosys. Because the company started in Israel and the company maintains close contacts with the country's secret service, more precisely: with Unit 8200, the NSA counterpart there. About half of Verint's employees are in Israel. Verint solutions are used by more than 10,000 organizations in 150 countries.
Business activity
When Kenneth A. Minihan , director of the NSA, was named a board member of Verint in the 1990s, this led to speculation that Verint was jointly run as the NSA- Mossad operation.
In 2006, the founder and CEO of Verint Jacob “Kobi” Alexander, a former Israeli intelligence officer, was charged in the US with, among other things, electronic data fraud, securities fraud and email fraud, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list , fled to Namibia, where he fought extradition to the USA for several years.
In 2007, a former commander of the Israel Intelligence Service, Unit 8200, stated that Comverse (owned by Verint) uses technology from Unit 8200. In 2013, Ben Gurion University professor of political science Neve Gordon confirmed in an interview with the time , there is an intensive transfer of knowledge and experts between the secret service and the “private sector”; many company founders and employees would have previously worked for the 8200 unit.
In February 2013, Verint Systems became independent from Comverse, which still owns shares.
In addition to the then Israeli Narus (a subsidiary of the US armaments and aircraft manufacturer Boeing since 2010 ), Verint was also indirectly involved in the Room 641A scandal in 2006 and the PRISM and surveillance scandal in 2013. With the technology developed by the company, the NSA siphons off broadband internet communication worldwide. This technology was used in Mexico, funded by the Bush administration .
After the Snowden Leaks
On January 1st, 2014, the French-speaking daily Le Temps revealed that the Sommaruga Department , Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) signed another supply contract with Verint on December 18th for the Swiss Interception System (ISS), with the federal government providing the manufacturer Verint wanted to keep a secret. This ISS, with which Swiss police want to monitor telephone and Internet communications in the future , is expected to cost 13 million francs. The Verint company was considered so dubious in the subsequent discussion that security politicians wanted to address the case immediately, said Jean-Christoph Schwaab: "Anyone who orders equipment from a company like Verint could just as easily hand over the key to the NSA" . And Guido Rudolphi, a Zurich-based specialist in computer and data security, confirms Schwaab's fears: "All devices from the USA have so-called backdoors through which the secret services can sniff out everything." And he emphasized that the best hardware could be contaminated with this kind of hardware In retrospect, experts do not make sure: "These backdoors are like electronic sleepers - at best, you notice them when they are activated from the outside."
literature
- Anna Catherin Loll: Business is business - or not? Deutsche Telekom works with people and companies that have also supplied secret services such as the NSA , Die Zeit, November 21, 2013.
- James Bamford : The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America . Doubleday, 2008. ISBN 0385521324 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Executive Leadership
- ↑ a b Verint Systems FORM 10-K , accessed June 16, 2018
- ↑ a b Daniel Hopsicker: NSA left to St Petersburg FL Drug Ring November 15, 2013
- ↑ a b IDF Unit 8200 Cyberwar Veterans Developed NSA Snooping Technology. Blog on Richard Silverstein's website, June 8, 2013.
- ↑ Ron Stone Sheet: Verint completes separation from Comverse. Globes, February 7, 2013
- ↑ Mexican govt struck deal with US to install spy network? Blog on the website of the TV channel Russia Today , July 11, 2013.
- ^ Fabian Vogt: Swiss surveillance systems possibly NSA-infiltrated , computerworld.ch, January 16, 2014
- ↑ Niklaus Ramseyer: Sommaruga orders from a dubious US company , tageswoche.ch, January 16, 2014