Interesting... The feds already use Symantec (Score 3, Interesting)

From the article: Symantec is known as the maker of the Norton anti-virus software that runs... snip ...Mid-size companies typically pay Symantec $1,000 to $2,000 a month to monitor their networks. The firm has big clients, too -- including 55 of the Fortune 500 companies -- and does work for several federal agencies.

If the government comes up with a monitoring solution that is anything like what Symantec is already doing, and if serval federal agencies are already using Symantec, it wouldn't be too suprising to see security monitoring and what not farmed out to these corporations.

It would be interesting to see what comes from something like this. Who gets the contracts, and what "privs" do they get. What data are the corps allowed to get to, what are the restirictions on that data, and even worse, what they really do with it...