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

• LONDON - A TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys. 

• PARIS - Ercom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

• LONDON - Hart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New economic intelligence unit not overseen by ISC 

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

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.

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.

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.