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SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies

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SS8 built its network traffic-inspection and analysis platform as a tool for intelligence agencies to discover communications among criminals and terrorists but now has scaled it back for enterprises to stop data breaches.

Called BreachDetect, the business-sized software gathers highly detailed network traffic data that discovers application flows and the activity of individual machines and analyzes them to find anomalies that indicate foul play.

The platform also stores the information it collects so it can be analyzed over and over as new threat indicators are identified. That way corporate security pros can discover threats that may have been lurking undetected for months and figure out when and how they got there, SS8 says.

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Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create ‘decryption without weakening’

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The two major international security agencies in Europe agree that building backdoors into encryption platforms is not the best way to secure systems because of the collateral damage it would do to privacy and the security of communications.

“While this would give investigators lawful access in the event of serious crimes or terrorist threats, it would also increase the attack surface for malicious abuse, which, consequently, would have much wider implications for society,” says a joint statement by European Police Office (Europol) and European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), which focuses on cyber security.

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Network World Tim Greene

Most Federal Agencies Have Suffered A Data Breach – Dark Reading

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Most Federal Agencies Have Suffered A Data Breach
Dark Reading
Most Federal Agencies Have Suffered A Data Breach. Vormetric report indicates that security spending in federal agencies hampers modern security techniques to safeguard critical data. The majority of US federal agencies say they feel vulnerable to data …

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US Agencies Conduct Cyberwar Games – Wall Street Journal

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Wall Street Journal

US Agencies Conduct Cyberwar Games
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The Pentagon, Department of Homeland Security, National Security Agency and a host of other agencies joined British officials and a number of private companies for a three-week cyber war game, testing 14 teams on a range of simulated …

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