[reirob]

"[..]Alongside its government clients, Endace has many major corporate customers.

Endace’s sales lists include finance industry giants such as Morgan Stanley, Reuters, and Bank of America. [..]"

What for do finance companies need systems that intercept data?

[tptacek]

To monitor their own networks, which are gigantic. The top tier of the finance market had networks so complicated and sensitive that they would surprise us and buy Arbor Networks products that were designed for AT&T's backbone. Some of them even needed the BGP monitoring stuff we'd been doing.

These companies (Reuters included) basically run their own facsimiles of the Internet, but to carry money instead of cat pictures. Their network monitoring needs are intense.

[ajdlinux]

I would assume internal network security and audit trail purposes.

[q-base]

You could probably sell just about anything to those under a FOMO umbrella.