Narus Inc.

In 1997, Ori Cohen, Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDONet, founded Narus with Stas Khirman in Israel.{{cite news|title=Ori Cohen: Executive Profile & Biography|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1635969&privcapId=29785875&previousCapId=22903&previousTitle=Sequoia%20Capital|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015214857/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1635969&privcapId=29785875&previousCapId=22903&previousTitle=Sequoia%20Capital|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2012|access-date=17 September 2011|newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek}} Presently, they are employed with Deutsche Telekom AG and are not members of Narus' executive team.{{Cite web |url=http://www.narus.com/company/executive-team/ |title=Executive Team | Narus |access-date=2013-09-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130806053630/http://narus.com/company/executive-team |archive-date=2013-08-06 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Fogel|first=Raphael|title=Ori Cohen, private eye|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/ori-cohen-private-eye-1.192771|access-date=17 September 2011|newspaper=Haaretz|date=11 July 2006}} In 2010, Narus became a subsidiary of Boeing, located in Sunnyvale, California.{{cite news|title=Boeing buying cybersecurity firm Narus|url=http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9GQTHC00.htm|access-date=18 September 2011|newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek|date=8 July 2010|agency=Associated Press|location=St. Louis|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501023943/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9GQTHC00.htm|archive-date=1 May 2011}} In 2015, Narus was sold to Symantec.{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/01/14/symantec-acquires-boeings-cybersecurity-unit-in-a-bid-to-boost-big-data-capabilities/#79c92f7435a1|title=Symantec Acquires Boeing's Cybersecurity Unit in a Bid to Boost Big Data Capabilities|website=Forbes|access-date=2016-03-28}}{{Cite web |date=2015-01-15 |title=Symantec Inks Deal with Boeing's Narus Security Division - Analyst Blog |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/symantec-inks-deal-boeings-narus-163004225.html |access-date=2024-05-16 |website=Yahoo Finance |language=en-US}}

In 2004, Narus employed former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency, William Crowell as a director.{{cite web |url=http://narus.com/press/2004/0929.html |title=Narus Appoints Former Deputy Director of the National Security Agency To Its Board of Directors |access-date=2017-09-14 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050206184639/http://narus.com/press/2004/0929.html |archive-date=February 6, 2005 }}

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Narus software primarily captures various computer network traffic in real-time and analyzes results.{{cite web|title=Boeing: Narus |url=http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/narus/index.html |publisher=Boeing |access-date=17 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110902133951/http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/narus/index.html |archive-date=September 2, 2011 }}{{cite news|title=Narus Networks Private Limited: Private Company Information|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=59181865|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015214844/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=59181865|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 15, 2012|access-date=17 September 2011|newspaper=Bloomberg Businessweek}}

Before 9/11 Narus built carrier-grade tools to analyze IP network traffic for billing purposes, to prevent what Narus called "revenue leakage". Post-9/11 Narus added more "semantic monitoring abilities" for surveillance.

Narus provided Telecom Egypt with deep packet inspection equipment, a content-filtering technology that allows network managers to inspect, track and target content from users of the Internet and mobile phones, as it passes through routers. The national telecommunications authorities of both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are global Narus customers.{{Cite web | url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html | title=One U.S. Corporation's Role in Egypt's Brutal Crackdown| website=HuffPost| date=2011-01-28}}

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Narus supplied the software and hardware used at AT&T wiretapping rooms, according to whistleblowers Thomas Drake,{{cite web|url=https://www.eff.org/document/drake-declaration-support-plaintiffs-motion|title=Drake declaration in support of plaintiffs' motion|work=Electronic Frontier Foundation|date=2012-07-02}} and Mark Klein.What was the Israeli involvement in collecting U.S. communications intel for NSA? The Marker, Haaretz, The Associated Press and Reuters, Jun. 8, 2013 at http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.528529 .retrieved on 7-18-13

==See also==

• Carnivore (software)
• Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
• Computer surveillance
• ECHELON
• Hepting vs. AT&T, the 2006 lawsuit in which the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleges AT&T allowed the NSA to tap the entirety of its clients' Internet and voice over IP communications using Narus equipment.
• Lincoln (surveillance)
• Room 641A
• SIGINT
• Total Information Awareness
• Verint Systems

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• [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/view/ Frontline Flash Video "Spying on the Home Front"] TV documentary originally aired on PBS 15 May 2007 with a section entitled "The NSA's Eavesdropping at AT&T" with the story of Mark Klein exposing NSA wiretapping with a secure room and Narus STA 6400 at an AT&T facility in San Francisco, CA

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