Spotlight | Israel
Cyber firm Rayzone makes defensive shift as Toka gets offensive

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Rayzone founder goes solo, Grayshift in the EU, AmCham Abu Dhabi cloud, EU maritime security GEOINT

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Tel AvivRayzone co-founder Ron Zilka goes solo.

Atlanta/HelsinkiUS Grayshift joins forces with Finland's Moonsoft as it spreads its European wings.

Abu Dhabi/WashingtonAmCham Abu Dhabi ropes in more cloud specialists with Red Hat and Trend Micro.

MadridSpain's GMV to provide algorithms to European Maritime Safety Agency for GEOINT data analysis.

BrusselsAndreas Constantinides, former APCO and Amcham EU, turns European lobbyist for the US cloud.

Spotlight | Europe, Israel
Israeli cyberintelligence firms make beeline for Brussels

After the Middle East and former Eastern European countries, Israeli cyber firms have set their sights on Western Europe, starting with Belgium, which has launched some major programmes to get up to speed in cyber.

Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine
Ukraine's domestic intelligence drops Rayzone and Ultra

As large amounts of US funding pours into the country's open source intelligence sector, Ukraine's home security agency, the SBU, has decided to terminate its contract with the two Israeli firms.

Spotlight | Cyprus, Israel
Israeli Eitanium emerges from woodwork financed by sector heavyweights

Cyber intelligence start-up Eitanium, whose shareholders include Circles co-founder Eric Banoun and Erik Prince, founder of the private military company Blackwater, is beginning to recruit specialists in Israel.

Africa, Israel
Israel's Rayzone Group's inevitable African turn

In a sign of its growing interest in Africa, the Israeli cyberintelligence firm Rayzone Group presented its interception and cybersecurity systems to a visiting delegation from the DRC recently, a few weeks after prospecting for business in Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Spotlight | Israel, Ukraine
Rayzone and ULTRA challenged by crosswinds in Ukraine

The two Israeli firms will deliver a system to counter hybrid warfare to the Ukrainian intelligence service SBU, but not everyone in Kyiv is happy with the choice of provider.

Israel
Rayzone loses its cyber chief as it tries to free itself of its reliance on SS7

Rayzone, which has already been weakened by document leaks in trials involving third parties, now needs to fill the hole left by the departure of its chief cyber officer.

Israel
Rayzone's interception modus operandi exposed by legal cases

Cyber-intelligence firms are well aware of the risk of going to court to settle a trade dispute where their most secret operations may be exposed. Rayzone, one of the industry's most established players, has been living through every cyber intelligence firm's worst nightmare over the past few weeks.

Israel
Rayzone provides remote access to monitor IP networks

Chaired by the Yohai Bar-Zakai, the former deputy commander of Unit 8200, Rayzone is looking to corner the market in services to intelligence agencies, from interceptions to cyber-intrusion.