Data sharing systems used within the Five Eyes partnership
(Updated: July 25, 2017) From the Snowden revelations, the general public learned about the Five Eyes partnership between the signals intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, but details about this cooperation remained shrouded in secrecy. Now, a batch of internal newsletters of the NSA's Signals Intelligence Directorate (SID), published last August by the website The Intercept, provides new information about various systems for sharing information, metadata, content and reports among the Five Eyes partners. - From BRUSA to Five Eyes - Joint Executive for SIGINT Interoperability (JESI) - Secure communications: IWS - Interoperable access control: PKI - Sharing metadata: MAINWAY - Federated metadata queries: GLOBALREACH - Sharing content: TICKETWINDOW - Sharing end reports: CATAPULT - SIDtoday newsletters From BRUSA to Five Eyes The Five Eyes community grew out of the cooperation between Britain and the United States during