French government digital policy: Paris has head in the Cloud

Contractors benefit from government GEOINT turf wars

Firms that work for the US intelligence community are the main beneficiaries of the space race between the NGA and other Pentagon agencies. [...]

Tehran seeks vengeance on Trump in Afghanistan

In the ongoing brinksmanship between the US and Iran, Tehran is planning to relaunch its support for Afghan insurgent groups. However it will not been plain sailing for the Pasdaran. [...]

Aon shutters Stroz-Friedberg's investigations activity

The US corporate intelligence and cyber investigation firm Stroz-Friedberg is poised to give up corporate intelligence and focus exclusively on [...]

Commandos do well in French military shakeup

The appointment last week of Pierre Liot de Nortbecourt as head of operations at the DGSE, a position he had [...]

Erdogan orders security shake up

When he announced his new government on July 9, Turkey's recently reelected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose some surprising appointees [...]

Tokyo takes cyber path to closer intelligence cooperation

Because of the flooding in Japan, the country's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has cancelled a planned visit to Paris on [...]

Intrusion threat prompts clearance reforms

The Senate Intelligence Committee approved the White House-proposed reorganisation of security clearance vetting procedures in June. The move is specifically [...]

Erdogan reinvents Turkey's cyber world

Turkish Airlines may become an unlikely force to be reckoned with in Turkish cyber security. The part publicly-owned company recently [...]

Hogan-Howe prospers in private sector

Former Metropolitan Police chief Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe recently joined the strategic communications consulting firm Powerscout. Founded by former Sunday Times [...]

ADIT leads race to acquire GEOS

According to our sources, ADIT, the corporate intelligence firm headed by Philippe Caduc, has entered exclusive negotiations with the private [...]

Andrew Fulton gets busy after leaving GPW

Having recently stepped down at the end of a decade as chairman of GPW (IOL 522), Andrew Fulton, 74, is [...]

Thales goes all out to land satellite order

The French company is hoping that Singapore will become the first country to buy its new high-end observation satellites. It is lining up its troops to secure a deal. [...]

Foreign currency-strapped Teheran scoops up dollars in arbitration ruling

While the White House is going all out to toughen sanctions against Iran, Tehran is collecting foreign currency in arbitration proceedings. [...]

ETIT partners foreign technical intelligence companies

The state-run technology company ETIT is emerging as the go-to interface for foreign monitoring and interception companies wanting to do business in Egypt. [...]

Beijing backs Ziyan's low-cost armed drones

Recently taken under the wing of China's ministry of public security, or Gonganbu, and backed by a number of public funds, Ziyan UAV is looking to flood the lower end of the military market with its inexpensive drones. [...]

KAI builds drones for Nursultan Nazarbayev

State-owned Kazakhstan Aviation Industry recently signed a cooperation deal that will enable it to develop its own drones. [...]

Drone interception experts look beyond jamming

Disabling attack drones has become a priority for armed forces and private industry is scrambling to come up with solutions. [...]

Toka builds cyber agencies for penniless governments

Toka, a startup that was discreetly launched by former high-ranking Israeli cyber-defence officials and ex-prime minister Ehud Barak, is aiming to be an interface between Israel's cyber industry and governments in need of cyber tools. [...]

BLER forges Israeli-Ukrainian interceptions alliance

Israel's Avnon Group recently teamed with the Ukrainian firm Cyberio to develop an interception and social network monitoring system. [...]