Endace
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| Private | |
| Industry | Network monitoring |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Auckland, New Zealand |
Key people | Stuart Wilson: CEO |
| Website | www.endace.com |
Endace Ltd is a privately-owned network monitoring company, based in New Zealand and founded in 2001.[1] It provides network visibility and network recording products to large organizations. The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2005 and then delisted in 2013 when it was acquired by Emulex.[2][3] In 2016 Endace was spun out of Emulex and is currently a private company.[4]
In October 2016, The Intercept revealed that some Endace clients were intelligence agencies, including the British GCHQ (known for doing massive surveillance on network communications) and the Moroccan DGST (identified as a key actor in the Morocco government human right abuse). [5]
Background and history
Endace was founded after the DAG project at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.[1][6] The first cards designed at the University were intended to measure latency in ATM networks.
In 2006, Endace transitioned from component manufacturer to appliance manufacturer to managed infrastructure provider. The company now sells network visibility fabrics, based on its range of network recorders, to large corporations and government agencies.
Endace was the first New Zealand company to list on London's Alternative Investment Market AIM (EPIC: EDA) when it floated in mid-June 2005[7] a move which was not without controversy.[8] Poor share price performance in the early years and a seeming failure to attract a broad enough shareholder base lent weight to the criticism that Endace should have focused initially on developing its local profile (via NZX) rather than pushing for overseas investment (via London AIM).
Endace is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, and has an R&D centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, and offices in Australia, United States and Great Britain.
Controversy and surveillance
In October 2016, The Intercept published an article showing that Endace customers include intelligence agencies, including the GCHQ, Canadian and Australian intelligence agencies, and the DGST (Morocco’s domestic surveillance agency).[5] Edward Snowden documents have shown that the GCHQ has installed massive surveillance of network communications in UK, using the over-sea cable between Europe and North America. The DGST is particularly controversial as Moroccan authorities have been persistently accused over more than five decades of committing a range of severe human rights abuses, with the DGST identified as a key actor of these abuses. [9]
References
- 1 2 "The DAG Project".
- ↑ NSS Labs Q3 2010 Product Test Endace Core100
- ↑ "ENDACE LTD (EDA:NL): Company Description - BusinessWeek". Bloomberg Businessweek investing database. Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
- ↑ "Endace Spins off from Emulex in Management-led Buyout". New Zealand: Endace. 10 March 2016. Retrieved 13 March 2016.
- 1 2 "The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance". The Intercept. 23 October 2016. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
- ↑ "Yoke Har Lee: Life's a bit of a DAG for hi-tech firm". The New Zealand Herald. 24 August 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ↑ Growth Business: Endace poised to take AIM
- ↑ Inder, Richard (5 June 2006). "Endace's performance on UK AIM listing gives fuel to critics". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 11 September 2011.
- ↑ "Shadow of Impunity: Torture in Morocco and Western Sahara". Amnesty international. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2016.