Spotlight
As it is gradually pushed out of international financial surveillance organisations, Russia's financial intelligence service Rosfinmonitoring is counting on its connections with local and Central Asian universities to provide new recruits and keep up its foreign partnerships.
The prominent Saudi family, long popular as a key partner for foreign businesses in Saudi Arabia, is expanding its presence in the defence industry. One of the clan's companies, Wahaj, has been forming new partnerships both in and outside the country.
Bahrain's dual cyber institutions are muddling the NCSC's attempts to become an integral part of the regional security architecture. Launched in 2020, the government body is still competing with the Information and eGovernment Authority which is both a cybersecurity guarantor and financial regulator for the kingdom intent on curbing spending.
Business and Strategies in Europe has been contracted by Brussels to help Moldova and the Balkan states with their West-leaning policies, placing it in a strategic position as Russia tries to exert its own influence in these countries.
Global Threat Solutions, the company that handled security for the French luxury giant's exhibition on New York's Madison Avenue, has been accused by a group of its employees of breaching US labour laws. They took the case to court earlier this month.
Supposed to be the UAE's new cyberintelligence flagship, CPX is struggling to make its mark and hold on to contracts because of technological gaps at a time when other parapublic cyber firms are gaining ground.
Natural language processing, popularised by ChatGPT, is of particular interest to the UAE's security apparatus conglomerates for their big data and open source intelligence (OSINT) programmes. The technology also promises to offer new firms in the sector a means to conduct low-cost influence operations.
Lee Wylde, an Intelligence Corps veteran and OSINT expert who has been involved in a number of British Army intelligence and data analysis programmes, has founded the defence startup Disruptive Industries.
France's campaign-finance watchdog has questioned a €540,000 cybersecurity contract taken out by Marine Le Pen last year. The deal involves an ex-martial arts champion, former military officers and a supplier conveniently located in Switzerland. https://t.co/85C9pOxUOF
A few weeks after taking up his new post in Singapore, it is becoming increasingly clear that Marc P.'s first mission will be to build a new network of undercover agents for the DGSE in South East Asia. https://t.co/scbqsPEO8M
📢 The former Kuomintang president of Taiwan Ma Ying-Jeou, who is due to start a visit to China today, hopes to meet official CCP ideologist Wang Huning, who is leading efforts to improve relations between the two countries. https://t.co/5pDnM84bCF
France's campaign-finance watchdog has questioned a €540,000 cybersecurity contract taken out by Marine Le Pen last year. The deal involves an ex-martial arts champion, former military officers and a supplier conveniently located in Switzerland. https://t.co/85C9pOxUOF
A few weeks after taking up his new post in Singapore, it is becoming increasingly clear that Marc P.'s first mission will be to build a new network of undercover agents for the DGSE in South East Asia. https://t.co/scbqsPEO8M
📢 The former Kuomintang president of Taiwan Ma Ying-Jeou, who is due to start a visit to China today, hopes to meet official CCP ideologist Wang Huning, who is leading efforts to improve relations between the two countries. https://t.co/5pDnM84bCF