founded 1997 2014 headquarters sunnyvale california united states number of locations united states india products originally a company focused on telecommunications billing and customer market intelligence . after 2001 the company pivoted towards providing network intelligence gathering software to governments around the world . website http www.narus.com narus company website www.narus.com narus inc. was a software company and vendor of big data analytics for cybersecurity . contents 1 history 1.1 management 2 investors 3 narus software 3.1 narusinsight 3.1.1 system specification and capabilities 3.2 mobile 4 controversies 4.1 at & t wiretapping room 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit in 1997 ori cohen vice president of business and technology development for vdonet founded narus with stas khirman in israel . 1 presently they are employed with deutsche telekom ag and are not members of narus executive team . 2 3 4 in 2010 narus became a subsidiary of boeing located in sunnyvale california . 5 6 in 2014 narus was sold to symantec . 7 management edit in 2004 narus employed former deputy director of the national security agency william crowell as a director . from the press release announcing this 8 crowell is an independent security consultant and holds several board positions with a variety of technology and technology based security companies . since 11 september 2001 crowell served on the defense advanced research projects agency darpa task force on terrorism and deterrence the national research council committee on science and technology for countering terrorism and the markle foundation task force on national security in the information age . investors edit narus has venture funding from companies including jp morgan partners mayfield neocarta presidio venture partners walden international intel ntt software and sumisho electronics . narus had several business partners providing technologies similar to narusinsight . several of the partners were funded by in q tel.from 2007 2010 the gesellschaft f r technische sonderl sungen gts narus software edit this section contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . may 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message narus is one of the first companies to combine patented machine learning algorithms automation and data fusion technologies to provide the incisive intelligence context and control network operators need to protect against cyberthreats and ensure information security . narus software primarily captures various computer network traffic in real time and analyzes results . 9 10 prior to 9 11 narus worked on building 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 . narusinsight edit narus is noted for having created narusinsight a supercomputer system whose installation in at & t s san francisco internet backbone gave rise to a 2006 class action lawsuit by the electronic frontier foundation against at & t hepting v. at & t. 11 system specification and capabilities edit some features of narusinsight include 12 scalability to support surveillance of large complex ip networks such as the internet . high speed packet processing performance which enables it to sift through the vast quantities of information that travel over the internet . normalization correlation aggregation and analysis provide a model of user element protocol application and network behaviors in real time . that is it can track individual users monitor which applications they are using e.g. web browsers instant messaging applications e mail and what they are doing with those applications e.g. which web sites they have visited what they have written in their emails im conversations and see how users activities are connected to each other e.g. compiling lists of people who visit a certain type of web site or use certain words or phrases in their e mail messages . high reliability from data collection to data processing and analysis . narusinsight s functionality can be configured to feed a particular activity or ip service such as security lawful intercept or even skype detection and blocking . compliance with calea and etsi . certified by telecommunication engineering center tec in india for lawful intercept and monitoring systems for isps . the intercepted data flows into narusinsight intercept suite . 13 this data is stored and analyzed for surveillance and forensic analysis . other capabilities include playback of streaming media i.e. voip rendering of web pages examination of e mail and the ability to analyze the payload attachments of e mail or file transfer protocols . narus partner products such as pen link offer the ability to quickly analyze information collected by the directed analysis or lawful intercept modules . a single narusinsight machine can monitor traffic equal to the maximum capacity 10 gbit s of around 39 000 256 k dsl lines or 195 000 56k telephone modems . but in practical terms since individual internet connections are not continually filled to capacity the 10 gbit s capacity of one narusinsight installation enables it to monitor the combined traffic of several million broadband users . according to a year 2007 company press release the latest version of narusinsight intercept suite nis is the industry s only network traffic intelligence system that supports real time precision targeting capturing and reconstruction of webmail traffic ... including google gmail msn hotmail and yahoo mail . 14 however currently most webmail traffic can be https encrypted so the content of messages can only be monitored with the consent of service providers . narusinsight can also perform semantic analysis of the same traffic as it is happening in other words analyze the content meaning structure and significance of traffic in real time . the exact use of this data is not fully documented as the public is not authorized to see what types of activities and ideas are being monitored . ed snowden s june 2013 releases about prism surveillance program have made clear however that narus has played a central role . mobile edit 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 . controversies edit at & t wiretapping room edit main article room 641a narus supplied the software and hardware used at at & t wiretapping rooms according to whistleblowers thomas drake 15 and mark klein . 16 see also edit 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 references edit ori cohen executive profile & biography . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 17 september 2011 . he served as vice president of business and technology development for vdonet and chief executive officer for intellicom ltd. http www.narus.com company executive team fogel raphael 11 july 2006 . ori cohen private eye . haaretz . retrieved 17 september 2011 . it was founded in 1997 by dr ori cohen stas khirman and four other guys in israel . executive team . narus . retrieved 25 february 2013 . boeing buying cybersecurity firm narus . bloomberg businessweek . st. louis . associated press . 8 july 2010 . retrieved 18 september 2011 . boeing announced its second acquisition in as many weeks saying it will buy anti cyber attack software company narus . boeing completes acquisition of narus . benzinga.com . 29 july 2010 . retrieved 18 september 2011 . boeing nyse ba today announced it has completed its acquisition of narus . symantec acquires boeing s cybersecurity unit in a bid to boost big data capabilities . forbes . retrieved 2016 03 28 . narus appoints former deputy director of the national security agency to its board of directors at the wayback machine archived february 6 2005 boeing narus . boeing . archived from the original on september 2 2011 . retrieved 17 september 2011 . a wholly owned subsidiary of the boeing company narus is headquartered in sunnyvale calif. and supports a global base of government and commercial customers . narus networks private limited private company information . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 17 september 2011 . narus networks private limited provides real time network traffic and analytics software used to protect against cyber attacks and threats aimed at large internet protocol networks . nsa multi district litigation . electronic frontier foundation . key features list of narusinsight http narus.com images pdf narus nsystem brochure.pdf narus expands traffic intelligence solution to webmail targeting . reuters . 2007 12 10 . retrieved 2008 02 13 . drake declaration in support of plaintiffs motion . electronic frontier foundation . 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 external links edit official website wired news article wired news article at & t whistleblower mark klein discusses narus sta 6400 documents including pictures wiring diagrams and equipment lists and installation dates from mark klein at the wayback machine archived 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