Washington offers intelligence carrot to ASEAN

Razor's Edge brings niche startups closer to the intelligence community

Chaired by Joseph Cofer Black, the former head of the CIA's Counterterrorism Center, the venture capital firm Razor's Edge Ventures has invested in a number of SIGINT and cyber defence startups. [...]

Macron and Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discuss security issues Free

According to our sources, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan will visit Paris on October 17-18 for [...]

Behind the scenes of Qatar's cyber-battle

Donald Trump's favourite lobbyist lost his legal battle against Qatar last month in a court case that shed a lot of light on Doha's cyber modus operandi. [...]

Wychwood nabs cyber ambassador

Conrad Prince, the former GCHQ director general for intelligence and strategy who was the UK's ambassador for cyber until January [...]

MI6-MI5-GCHQ admin merger sparks concern

As Intelligence Online revealed recently (IOL 814), the plan to merge the administrative services of Britain's three major intelligence services [...]

Post ISIS, Amman woos France's military presence

Paris is stepping up its support of Jordan, delivering 20 Masstech offroad military vehicles to the country last month. The [...]

MPs examine materiel outsourcing contracts

The outsourcing of contracts will be explored in Les Republicains MP Claude de Ganay's upcoming budgetary report to the parliamentary [...]

Tribes protest against MBS' anti-National Guard crusade

Largely unseen by the outside world, a power struggle is going on between the Crown Prince and the tribes that make up the ranks of the Saudi Arabian National Guard. King Salman was recently prompted to intervene. [...]

DRM, DGSE launch separate IA programmes

Both French intelligence services are expecting great things from Artificial Intelligence, particularly in geospatial intelligence, but they are not ready to pool their resources. [...]

Fincantieri, Naval Group may tie looser knot

The Euronaval fair in Paris on October 23-26 is supposed to be the moment when Italy's Fincantieri and France's Naval [...]

Smaller profits, bigger dividends for Montrose

Tom Enders' favourite corporate intelligence firm remains profitable despite the economic climate. [...]

Prescient Edge lands DIA counter-intelligence contract

The defence services company Prescient Edge (PE), a division of the corporate intelligence firm Prescient, landed a $65 million contract [...]

Emmanuel Macron sets out to woo Tashkent

At war with Washington, Deripaska cosies upto Moscow

In bad odour with the West, Oleg Deripaska has turned to former spy friends to manage his situation in the US while staying friendly with Moscow. [...]

Facing internal issues, SAMI looks beyond its borders

The new defence conglomerate spurred by Mohamed bin Salman sets its sights on South Africa. [...]

Al Abdulqader, Albright's new US industry point man from Riyadh

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's firm has recruited a Saudi defence industry insider. [...]

Desert Corps looks to carve surveillance niche

Desert Corps is one of a number of Saudi Arabian newcomers that have burst onto the kingdom's security and surveillance scene. [...]

Ledgett, former NSA number two, joins Hakluyt in Washington Free

The former deputy director of the NSA, in charge of offensive operations, is much in demand in the private sector. [...]

Ethereal allies password retrieval with crypto-currency mining

The small Australian firm Ethereal offers low-priced computers that can crack passwords and general virtual currency revenue. [...]

Booz Allen and D-Wave boost space intelligence with quantum computing

Research by Booz Allen and D-Wave will give the US Air Force the edge in managing its satellites and monitoring rival constellations. [...]

Taobao slashes cost of remote surveillance implants

Chinese online retailer Taobao has become a platform for low-cost integrators who claim they can bug any electronic device. [...]