Raytheon Unveils Linux ‘Insider Threat’ Rooter-out Routers

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Article Source The Register
October 22, 2009, 3:56 am

US armstech mammoth Raytheon has announced that its “government insider threat management solution” for information security will be powered by Linux. Penguin-inside crypto modules to be used in Raytheon’s mole-buster tech have now passed tough federal security validation, apparently.

The insider-threat detector gear in question is Raytheon’s SureView, designed to root out the whole spectrum of security no-nos from “accidental data leaks” through “well-intentioned but inappropriate policy violations” to “deliberate theft of data”. SureView monitors every network sparrow that falls, looking automatically for ‚ÄúLeading Indicator‚Äù actions, “such as a screen capture that has been encrypted and saved to a USB drive”, for instance…

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