The new chief of the CIA's venture capital organization, In-Q-Tel, wants to make the fanciful spy gadgetry it develops through investments more broadly available to all U.S. intelligence agencies.
Amit Yoran, who resigned as the government's cybersecurity chief in 2004, is taking over as In-Q-Tel's chief executive after the surprise departure of longtime CEO Gilman Louie. Yoran had previously founded a technology startup, Riptech Inc., which Symantec Corp. purchased in 2002 for $145 million in cash.
Yoran, whose career has focused mostly on protecting computers from hackers, said he wants to expand In-Q-Tel to invest in companies whose technology will help not just the CIA, but all U.S. intelligence agencies.
Many of the tools are classified once they're adopted by the spy community, but among the hottest in demand: better tools to mine and analyze large amounts of data, ``sensing'' technologies and programs to find relationships among information where they aren't obvious, Yoran said.
``Technology is one of the biggest threats to our intelligence systems and one of the biggest opportunities,'' Yoran said...
How do you protect that which is run by those willing to sell to the highest bidder? You don't. You find something that sells, too.
That's probably why he quit.
He saw where the money is, and now he's making better tools for Total Information Awareness.
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