NEB seeks contractor to monitor 'vast amounts' of online chatter for potential security threats

guest · Jun 22, 2018

NEB seeks contractor to monitor 'vast amounts' of online chatter for potential security threats
Pipeline regulator aims to 'proactively ... protect its personnel, critical assets, information and services'
June 21, 2018
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/neb-security-monitoring-services-contractor-request-1.4715921

The federal regulator responsible for pipelines is seeking an outside company to monitor online chatter en masse and aggregate the data in an effort to detect security risks ahead of time.

The National Energy Board has issued a request for information (RFI) from companies qualified to provide "real-time capability to algorithmically process vast amounts of traditional media, open source and public social media data."
'Why all of a sudden?'
The RFI says the threat monitoring services are required under a broader federal directive on security management, but that directive was issued in 2009 and was supposed to have been implemented by 2012.

"The directive that they cite is Government of Canada policy, but it has been around for a while," Keenan said. "So, why all of a sudden? Probably because somebody figured that there's going to be a potential problem, so let's head it off."
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mirimir · Jun 22, 2018

There's such a thing as listening to too much chatter that's likely meaningless, and perhaps intentionally misleading.

Even the NSA hasn't been very successful at this.

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