In total, the contract is valued at 12 million and allow the Spanish company to strengthen the already strong relationship we enjoy as a technology provider for the Central American Corporation for Air Navigation Services (COCESNA).
In fact, Indra currently manages the entire upper airspace of Central America as well as being one of the leading providers of radar systems worldwide, with technology installed in more than 4,000 installations of 160 different countries.
Thanks to this Costa Rican contract to which access has been elEconomista, Indra renew facilities and technologies responsible for air control Juan Santamaria international airport, the largest in the country and serves the city of San Jose. Also it will do the same in the airport premises of Daniel Oduber Quirós in Liberia; and Tobias Bolaños Palma.
Air Navigation Services
In the case of focal air traffic of San Jose, as detailed Indra agreed improvements incorporated "advanced voice communication systems Garex 300, part of the family Indra systems IP communication and recorders Neptune voice ".
Made in Spain Technology
Broadly speaking, the Made in Spain technology will help the Central American country to increase the volume of air traffic thanks to a radar able to increase the capacity of detection and identification of aircraft.
Hand Indra, Costa Rica will be the first country in the world that have technology that incorporates the so-called 'NAM Protocol Level 3', considered "the most advanced to facilitate coordination between control centers when transferring responsibility management of flight control center to another. "
According to the company, the primary surveillance radars Indra were sold outside the US. At the same time, the secondary radars 'S Mode', which are distinguished by incorporating identification technology more advanced aircraft currently already operating at 175 facilities worldwide and currently cover the "air traffic surveillance 60% of Chinese airspace, almost the entire sky in India or 90% of the sky Ecuador, among other references, "adds the firm. Besides Costa Rica, the company has also supplied similar systems to countries like Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru or Colombia.
About 25 employees, all computer and not lose detail of the screens of their respective computers, pending find any anomaly that reflects a suspected behavior of "malware". Ahead of us, right on the wall, two giant panels reflect a projected map of the world and many graphs that analyze, in real time, thousands of customers devices company based in the Madrid town of image Alcobendas. On both sides there are four TVs, makers warn of any kind of alert occurs.
We are in the Security Operations Center (SOC) of Sec S21, a Spanish company specializing in cybersecurity and founded by Xabier Mitxelena (current CEO) and Miguel Fernandez. These two entrepreneurs started in 2000 to offer comprehensive managed services ranging from business analysis to monitoring structure 24 hours of data traffic from his native San Sebastian. Today already have offices in USA, Mexico, UK, Portugal, Barcelona, Pamplona and Madrid.
It was in the latter where Dridex, a computer virus that was raging in the bank accounts of hundreds of thousands of users around the world and brought the head to Europol and selfsame FBI detected.
It caused the volume of fraud has been extremely high, exceeding the 344,721 infected computers more than 195 countries
"It was not a fluke. We detect that something was behaving like Cridex, but not Cridex. It was then that we began to investigate on our own creating a specific signature". The speaker is David Avila Parodi, Manager of eCrime Sec or S21, so we understand, who manages the team of analysts who crammed the room.
Sec S21 has a platform of analysis of "malware" that every day looks more than 40,000 different viruses. They do this mainly to see if they can affect some of its customers. But this platform 'made in Spain' allows them to detect not only known Trojans, but also new threats.
