CALEA General Session

NET@EDUFebruary 6, 2007

CALEA

CommunicationsAssistance for LawEnforcement Act

Basic purpose: to provide an easier way for Law Enforcement to “wiretap” the Internet

Agenda

• Status Highlights

• CALEA-Related Standards

• Short presentations and discussion NPC position paper The Exempt/Non-Exempt Decision Process CALEA and the University of California CALEA and State Networks Related Issues

Use of CALEA vs. Title 18 Potential for CALEA-like legislation Data retention

Status Highlights

• Due dates for filings were set by the FCC for institutions which need to comply with CALEA

February 12th - Monitoring Report

March 12th - System Security Report

Status Highlights

• Many institutions continue to work to determine if they are covered by CALEA

Note: Nice updates to the EDUCAUSE CALEA website!

Status Highlights

• FCC continues to strongly assert compliance required by May 14th

• Network equipment vendors and Trusted Third Parties still developing their offerings based on emerging standards

CALEA-Related Standards

Craig Mulholland

Cisco

NPC Position Paper

Exempt/Not Exempt

• Institutions first evaluating if there is any possible need to comply Different interpretations of vague terms

• If yes, often doing risk analysis based on: Possible fines Possible bad PR (risk to reputation)

• Cost to comply: the trade-offs

Information Resources and Communications University of California, Office of the President

CALEA at the University of California

David WalkerOffice of the President

University of CaliforniaDavid.Walker@ucop.edu

Information Resources and Communications University of California, Office of the President

Background and Status The University of California

Ten campuses, five medical centers Intercampus connectivity provided by non-profit

state R&E network Legal analysis of the campuses' need to

comply is nearly complete, based largely on the results of a survey of campus network managers.

Information Resources and Communications University of California, Office of the President

Issues Addressed Is the campus network public or private?

Public access points on the campus Network connections with research and other

partners How does the campus connect to the public

Internet? ISPs used Responsibility for support of the campus

connection Does the campus provide “public” VoIP?

State Networks and CALEA

Shaun Abshere

WiscNet

Related Issues

“Vacuum cleaner” approach utilized by LE “Call it the vacuum-cleaner approach. It's

employed when police have obtained a court order and an Internet service provider can't "isolate the particular person or IP address" because of technical constraints, says Paul Ohm, a former trial attorney at the Justice Department's Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. (An Internet Protocol address is a series of digits that can identify an individual computer.)”

From ZDNet News, 1/30/2007

Related Issues

• Will CALEA be used on campuses? Or just Title 18, etc., so that better data can be

collected closer to the source?

• Potential for CALEA-like legislation How likely? What would we want it to say?

• Data Retention

Discussion

EXTRA MATERIALS BELOW

How might an Intercept work?

Lawful Authorization

Law Enforcement

Telecommunication Service Provider

Service Provider Administration

(Turn on Lawful Intercept feature of switch)

Delivery Function

Collection Function

Access Function

Law Enforcement Administration

(Switch collects Lawful Intercept

data)

(Securely deliver information to LEA)

(Order generated)

Compliance Options

• Purchase equipment Intercept capability

Upgrade existing network hardware, if Lawful Intercept (LI) features available, or

Acquire network probes to install in network

ALSO NEED MEDIATION DEVICE TO FORMAT AND SEND DATA TO LAW ENFORCEMENT (vendors such as SS8 and Verint)

Compliance Options

• Trusted Third Parties (TTP) Vendors can provide full suite of services

including: Installing equipment to perform Lawful Intercept Receiving and validating an intercept request from

Law Enforcement Performing the intercept and forwarding the data to

Law Enforcement

Could be less costly option if need to comply

Compliance Options

• Trusted Third Parties (TTPs) (continued)

Mixed results in interacting with TTP vendors so far

Service offerings CALEA Tech Group has seen are very new (NeuStar, Apogee - soon to see VeriSign)

Compliance Options

• “Do it yourself” optionsExample: Merit