"US Bans Trading With Canadian Network Intelligence Firm Sandvine"

The US government recently added Canadian network intelligence firm Sandvine to its Entity List, effectively banning organizations from trading with it.  The Waterloo, Ontario-based company provides network policy control products that support networking policies to enable congestion management, security, and censorship.  The US Department of Commerce announced that Sandvine was added to its trade restrictions list for providing the Egyptian government with the technology needed for mass surveillance and censorship.  Sandvine supplies deep packet inspection technology to the Government of Egypt, where it is used in mass web monitoring and censorship to block news as well as target political actors and human rights activists.  Deep packet inspection is a form of packet filtering in which specific patterns and signatures are used to examine and manage network traffic, including blocking or rerouting packets.

SecurityWeek reports: "US Bans Trading With Canadian Network Intelligence Firm Sandvine"