Spotlight
Li Wei and Zhang Xuan are to liaise between security service chiefs and provincial officials in charge of implementing the wide-ranging disciplinary programme aimed at rooting out and punishing those who fail to toe the Chinese Communist Party line. [...]
In the run-up to its operation to truck in Iranian fuel to help ease Lebanon's energy crisis, Hezbollah took stock of which organisations and businesses to supply. It even contacted entities that it does not control, some of which are close to French interests. [...]
Several senior officials from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), which oversees the activities of MI6, have recently moved over to the private sector, marking the end of an era in British intelligence. [...]
Purchased in 2014 by the intelligence services training firm New Century led by Tim Collins, Pinpoint has already made its mark by winning part of a large international cooperation and training contract for the Home Office. [...]
After having long kept its distance from the rest of France's cybersecurity community, Tehtris has decided to open up by creating Ecosystem, a partnership programme aimed mainly at companies working closely with French public bodies. [...]
As it continues to iron out the details of its mass data analysis programme Artemis, France's military intelligence service has turned its attention to a telephony data analytics programme developed by Deveryware. [...]
Still hoping to get its interception (SIGINT) constellation into orbit in time for future major British space contracts, Britain's Horizon Technologies recently appointed former GCHQ chief Neil Kempson to advise it. [...]
#Swiss company Jihad Analytics, set up by a former French armed forces ministry employee, enters the competitive market of jihadism-focused open source intelligence. https://t.co/IyxDWM8T14
Chinese firm RunTechnology is getting deeper into big data which, along with cybersecurity, is at the centre of smart city projects in #China. https://t.co/KDagIU2pK0
Ex-sports professionals have been part of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko's security apparatus for the past decade. His son Dmitri Lukashenko recently placed another member of his hockey club on the presidential team. #Belarus https://t.co/Ndzs4ljXKe