For people that run Netequalizers, they are helping you comply
As promised, NetEqualizer is now offering the utilities necessary to
meet requirements set forth this month by CALEA, or the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. This law oversees telecommunication
security and has now been expanded to Internet security. There are some
fairly harsh federal penalties for noncompliance that became effective
May 1.
John
Marlon K. Schafer wrote:
There won't be a WISPA standard done in time. We're still waiting on
some documentation from the FBI and we need to get some internal
documentation together as well.
But you don't have to be compliant with ANY standard to be CALEA
compliant! You just have to understand what you have to do if they ask
and have mechanisms in place to do it.
The basic parts you'll need are:
Linux based router or tap capabilities on the on you have. OR a
managed switch that will allow you to mirror a port.
Linux server with OpenCALEA and an FTP program on it.
Knowledge of how to make it record and distribute the needed data for
LEA.
You don't HAVE to use a TTP. You don't HAVE to follow a standard.
You don't HAVE to panic just yet.
*I've* talked to the folks at the FBI. They are NOT interested in
running anyone out of business. They just want to catch bad guys and
they *may* need our help to do it. Everything past that point is FUD.
Why have a standard at all then? Because if you don't follow a
standard you have to TRY to do anything that LEA asks of you. If you
are standards compliant you only have to do what the standard says you
have to do.
Believe it or not, guys like Tim at Bearhill are working WITH WISPA in
our efforts to develop a low cost/no cost solution to CALEA. We all
know that many in this industry are still trying to figure out how to
pay the bill on that latest order for 3 cpe units. I was sometimes 60
days behind with EC. I always paid but rarely on time. Sucked for me
and for them. Fortunately, they hung with me and today we're as
likely to be prepaid as we are to owe them. It's a nice change of
pace. We also order radios in bulk, every couple to few weeks, rather
than 1 or 2 at a time. Wondering how to make payroll, or buy diapers
sucks. Most of us have been there. We got through those times partly
because others reached a hand down and helped us where they could. We
worked hard, honestly and consistently.
I suggest that those of you in panic mode over CALEA go to
www.askcalea.net and read up on it. Contact the FCC and the FBI
yourselves if you don't believe those of us that are doing this work.
So far I've found that folks are more than happy to answer my direct
questions.
At LEAST contact those that WISPA sent to the FBI! They know a lot of
answers and they have a direct line to the FBI if they don't know the
answer.
Yeah, CALEA is a big deal. Yeah it's complicated. Yeah, it'll suck
to have to perform. Yeah, you have to do it anyway :-). Might as
well stop whining and start figuring out what all of those ttp's have
already gotten figured out.
Someone's gonna make money off of those out there that can't/won't
figure it out for themselves. Might as well be you!
marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Barber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 8:19 PM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] CALEA Compliance
John,
The part that is causing disbelief for me is the deadline is only
days away
and I haven't seen this solution or the costing for the solution.
Todd Barber
Skylink Broadband Internet
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
970-454-9499
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of John Scrivner
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 9:14 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] CALEA Compliance
I personally do not believe that any CALEA can be cost effective. Quite
simply, solving CALEA requires spending money without earning any
additional revenue. The only way to justify the CALEA expense is to
accept
it as a cost of doing business. This means simply that your market
opportunity is lost if you aren't CALEA compliant. I firmly believe
every
service provider should have plans for being CALEA compliant or have
plans
for exiting the business. This one is different than E911; the
liability
will be staggering.
-Matt
Matt,
We look forward to proving that this thinking is wrong. What part of
CALEA compliance is it that makes you think we cannot develop a low cost
and reasonable solution which will not break the bank?
Scriv
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