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CIA Invests In Anti-Cybercrime Startup

Posted by samzenpus on from the silent-partners dept.

wiredmikey writes "Launched by the CIA in 1999, In-Q-Tel's mission is to identify and partner with companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve the national security interests of the United States. In-Q-Tel has invested an undisclosed sum in Silver Tail Systems, an emerging online fraud prevention and analytics company, an investment they say enables them to offer powerful technology companies in the US intelligence community and further protect the nation's assets."

2 of 38 comments (clear)

  1. Commercial? by oakbox · · Score: 4, Informative

    This reads more like a commercial than an article for Slashdot.

    What's up with that?

    Or am I simply not seeing the big picture here?

    - oakbox

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    Not just answers, the correct questions.
  2. Re:Silver Tail Systems by vegiVamp · · Score: 2, Informative

    > monitors website traffic and identifies anomalies in real-time.

    mod_security.

    > creates models of what is normal traffic for a website’s population and uses that to identify threats

    Looking for peaks in the bandwith and connection rate graph.

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    What a depressingly stupid machine.