Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Pentagon Wants National Security Agency to Monitor Select Dot.com Domains of Government Defense Contractors

If the capacity exists for the NSA to monitor suspicious traffic on the dot.com domains of the defense contractors, what makes you think that this type technology is not available for the private sector?

Under the proposal, which is being informally circulated throughout the department and the Department of Homeland Security, the NSA could set up equipment to look for patterns of suspicious traffic at the internet service providers that the companies' networks run through. The agency would immediately notify the Pentagon and the companies if pernicious behavior were detected.

Oh wait, there is a suspicious traffic detector for the private sector. It's called EINSTEIN. The Department of Homeland Security is currently running pilot tests on EINSTEIN 3.

Source: The Atlantic


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