Narus (company)
Narus is the world's largest manufacturer of mass surveillance technology (mass surveillance ). The daughter of Boeing designs and sells, among other things, real-time analytics software for networks for signal intelligence applications ( "enterprise class" spyware). The company came in 2004 in the media when it was revealed that a supercomputer system, the NarusInsight, all of the data monitors at an Internet backbone in San Francisco near real-time for the NSA. The current product (2013 ) " Narus nSystem " aims to provide claims to be a complete solution including multidimensional database, compression of large amounts of data and forensics portal.
History
1997, the company was initiated by an Israeli team led by Ori Cohen, Vice President for Business Development and Technology Research of the video networking company VDOnet and Stas Khirman in Israel. Both work since March 2013 for the German Telekom AG.
Since 2004 it is known that Narus was a supplier to the U.S. Secret Service, then the former director of the NSA William P. Crowell was appointed CEO at Narus.
Narus is since 2010 a subsidiary of the U.S. defense and aircraft manufacturer Boeing.
Applications
Narus devices are in the global system for intercepting communications ECHELON program, which is operated from the early 2000s by the U.S., UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five -Eyes - group, are used.
Narus has been known for developing NarusInsight, a supercomputer system, which was installed in San Francisco at the Internet backbone from AT & T. 2006 there was a dispute between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AT & T, with triggered by the former AT & T technician and later NSA Whistleblower Mark Klein. Mark Klein and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have shown that AT & T that allowed the NSA with the help of Narus technology, auszuleiten all telephone conversations and IP data directly to the backbone. To this end, the NSA installed by Klein's information in a secret room, Room 641A, in the AT & T Data Center " San Francisco " a listening interface of type " Narus STA 6400 ". Similar systems had already been installed in Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego.
Narus is the manufacturer of technology for the monitoring program PRISM NSA, which was known by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in the course of the surveillance scandal in 2013.
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is according to research by the German magazine fact components of the art of Narus about the " Society for Technical Solutions" (GTS ), headquartered in Frankfurt am Main have purchased. Shortly after the company was founded in 2007, therefore, was the GTS exclusive distributor of Narus, in which the BND is said to have bought the technology in 2008. As Andy Mueller Maguhn, member of the Chaos Computer Club and former director of ICANN said on the television program, Narus does not offer any small surveillance solutions. Instead, can be combined with the developed surveillance technology here the complete communication of a particular network or state record. The federal government responded in September 2013 to an inquiry: "The security authorities of the Federal put a products from the Narus and polygon companies."