Petro Poroshenko's defeat in Ukraine's presidential elections last month has triggered intense in-fighting between the defence industry's established movers and shakers and newcomers keen to get in on the action. Western allies and defence companies are watching with trepidation.
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Defence France's foreign minister Jean-Yves le Drian is preparing a trip [...]
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Appointed head of security for the Paris diocese last December, [...]
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Kemba Eneas Walden, the former attorney advisor at the US [...]
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Corporate Intel According to our sources, General Thierry Burkhard has joined the list of candidates to succeed Admiral Bernard Rogel, President Emmanuel [...]
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Defence The US Army's Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) launched a number of consultations last month to improve its intelligence gathering [...]
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Contractors With trade wars between Russia and Belarus being fought out on numerous fronts, Alexander Lukashenko recently sent two strong messages [...]
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Agencies According to our sources, the newly-created STNCJ (Service Technique National de Captation Judiciaire), which conducts cyber-offensive operations for the DGSI, [...]
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Contractors The intelligence watchdog CNCTR (Commission Nationale de Controle des Techniques de Renseignement) is poised to cross a line for the [...]
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Facing the increased jamming of GPS signals by the Russian Army, particularly off the coast of Syria, the French Navy [...]
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The office in charge of security clearance for officials, the [...]
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Contractors The Netherlands' AIVD and MIVD, the intelligence service and military [...]
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Operations Britain's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) presented [...]
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Defence Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 2 creating [...]
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Defence Following the release of a video message by Islamic State [...]
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Operations According to our sources, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, France's special envoy to [...]
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Back-door diplomacy Ian Blackford, the leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) [...]
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Agencies The launch of Romanian antivirus manufacturer Bitdefender's Cyber Threat Intelligence solution in April has shed light on the British investment [...]
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Corporate Intel According to our sources, US-Swiss businessman and philanthropist Thomas Kaplan attended a meeting at the Elysee Palace between President Emmanuel [...]
Hugh Petre, who was in charge of Africa at K2 Intelligence's London office for many years, appears to have recently [...]
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Corporate Intel The French private security firm Risk&Ops has signed a partnership with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) firm Proteam, headed [...]
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Corporate Intel Patrick Calvar, the former head of the French internal intelligence service, the DGSI, has been appointed an adviser to Matthieu [...]
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Corporate Intel Geneva's investigation community now has its own trade association, the Aspire (Association Suisse des Professionnels de l'Investigation et du Renseignement [...]
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Corporate Intel The discreet Military Systems Group (MSG) is to be one [...]
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Corporate Intel The think tank CapMena, headed by Francois-Aissi Touazi, took a [...]
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Corporate Intel As director of relations with investors at Erik Prince's personal [...]
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Corporate Intel As chairman of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), aeronautical consultant [...]
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Corporate Intel Kia Roberts, a former Brooklyn prosecutor who headed investigations at [...]
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Corporate Intel David Lawson, who was head of intelligence for the British [...]
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Corporate Intel Jud Welle, a former investigating magistrate specialising in cyber-crime cases, [...]
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Corporate Intel Veolia security chief Jean-Louis Fiamenghi has invited a handful of [...]
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Corporate Intel The local partner of most of France's major defence companies when Najib Abdul Razak was in office, Weststar is still a key element in their commercial apparatus.
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Corporate Intel With the US tightening its sanctions against Tehran, new distribution channels for industrial equipment that is essential to Iran's oil and nuclear sectors are springing up thanks to social media.
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Cybersecurity Having played a key role in defence deals in Amman for many years, Bassam Pharaon is no mood to step back, despite his split from Airbus.
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Corporate Intel The development of Saudi Arabia's cyber-security sector, which Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has made a priority, is being spearheaded by the part-publicly owned Saudi Information Technology Company (SITE). The firm is looking to develop while being mindful of the internal and regional power balance.
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Corporate Intel The King of Jordan has ousted the head of the country's intelligence service at a time when the country is in the midst of a major socio-economic crisis. Some in the monarchy fear that Jordan may go the way of Sudan or Algeria.
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According to information obtained by Intelligence Online, the purge currently underway at the FSB, Russia's internal intelligence service, is linked [...]
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