United Kingdom
The Foreign Office to invite bids for security and intelligence contracts at high-risk embassies

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

Lebanon, United Kingdom
Siren Associates, linchpin of UK's security cooperation work, lands new deal in Lebanon

The FCDO has made public a £15m contract to Siren Associates to support Lebanon's Internal Security Forces (ISF), as the country sinks deeper into political and economic crisis. The British firm is an old hand at this kind of work.

United Kingdom
NCA intelligence budget cuts offset by boost to cyber

The National Crime Agency's tighter budget for its conflict, stability and intelligence funds have been countered by larger premiums for cybersecurity.

United Kingdom
Cyber Defence Service detects IED radiowaves for British military

Britain is going all-out to increase its cyber capacities with the help of firms such as Cyber Defence Service, which is working with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.

European Union, Iraq, United Kingdom
Brexit unleashes uncertainty on EU security contracts in Iraq

The EU will soon contract a new armed security supplier to protect its delegation in Erbil. Its representation in Baghdad may also be forced to relocate.

United Kingdom
What will become of G4S' Iraqi, Afghan and African security contracts?

Following its purchase by Allied Universal, G4S has pledged to give up most of its activities in hostile environments, which should foster new opportunities for its competitors.

United Kingdom
BEIS arms British government against economic warfare

Thanks to the twin arsenal of the new Investment Security Unit (ISU) and the National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF), Britain's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) is becoming an economic intelligence war machine, with MI6's help.

Europe, United Kingdom
Welund keeps tabs on environmentalists

Investigations into environmental groups have been conducted for as long as there has been a corporate intelligence business. But few companies are as involved as Britain's Welund, which was exposed in Vienna earlier this month.

United Kingdom
New economic intelligence unit not overseen by ISC

The UK government does not want its new Investment Security [...]

United Kingdom
Red Maple, boutique cyber security consultant

London is ramping up its cyber rhetoric and inspiring firms like Red Maple Technologies to flock to the town that is home to Britain's fabled eavesdropping agency, the GCHQ.

United Kingdom
Ex-MI6 intelligence officer Richard Barrett bets on big data to analyse terrorism

Commercialised by his company The Global Strategy Network (TGSN), the ExTrac platform also brings together researchers Charlie Winter and Abdullah Alrhmoun.

Switzerland, United Kingdom
VIP investigator Charlie Carr splits with his holy sponsor

The corporate intelligence firm that caters to London-based oligarchs, C and F Partners, has finalised a shareholding change agreed to months ago.