Narus Inc. was a software company and

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for

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History

In 1997, Ori Cohen, Vice President of Business and Technology Development for VDONet, founded Narus with Stas Khirman in

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. Presently, they are employed with

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and are not members of Narus' executive team. In 2010, Narus became a subsidiary of

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, located in

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, California. In 2015, Narus was sold to

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Management

In 2004, Narus employed former Deputy Director of the

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, William Crowell as a director.

Narus software

Narus software primarily captures various

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traffic in

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and analyzes results. Before

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Narus built

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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.

Mobile

Narus provided

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with

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and

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are global Narus customers.

Controversies

AT&T wiretapping room

Narus supplied the software and hardware used at

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wiretapping rooms, according to whistleblowers Thomas Drake, and

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References

External links

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 {{Boeing Software companies established in 1997 Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in Sunnyvale, California Former defense companies of the United States Computer security software companies 2010 mergers and acquisitions 2015 mergers and acquisitions Boeing mergers and acquisitions Gen Digital acquisitions Defunct software companies of the United States