ALL ARTICLES - SINGAPORE

Hikvision's strategically sensitive video surveillance contracts in Singapore under threat 

By launching a new campaign against Chinese group Hikvision, Washington has forced difficult decisions on a number of countries that use the group's video surveillance systems, especially Singapore. [...]

NSO keeps a foot in Singapore thanks to TRD 

In a bad position in Singapore on cyber intelligence, NSO Group maintains a presence in the city-state thanks to local anti-drone technology integrator TRD Consultancy, which distributes the products of its subsidiary Convexum. [...]

• NEW YORK - Hakluyt brings in hedge fund veteran. 

• PARIS - Alain Fernandez brings ADIT and ECCO closer together on offsets.
  

• LONDON/SINGAPORE - Crédit Suisse not doing well against former Georgian president despite FTI Consulting's help.
  

Xrator hoping for business with Singapore's NCS group 

Set up by former French armed forces ministry cyber experts, young Franco-Singaporean company Xrator is looking to win a contract from Singaporean IT distributor NCS, which has good connections with the city-state's authorities. [...]

Paris wants to reboot its partnership with Singaporean agency HTX 

The French ministry of the interior signed a deal with the fledgling Singaporean security and intelligence technology development agency Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) in 2019. Covid-19 then got in the way of the project, which France is now trying to rekindle. [...]

Singapore's Temasek shakes up management at Sygnia 

Four years after acquiring Sygnia, founded by Israeli Unit 8200 intelligence veterans, the Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek has put its stamp on management at the cyber company. [...]

PCS increasingly essential to Israeli cyber specialists in the city-state 

Israeli cyber-offensive companies have long been present in Singapore, but are now suffering from negative media exposure and are forced to rely more and more on the Singaporean parastatal company PCS Security. [...]

• LONDON - PGI loses its cyber chief.

• SINGAPORE, LONDON - The Risk Advisory Group poaches Steven Westerveldt from Control Risks Group to run its new Singapore bureau.
  

Singapore's PSA opens up virtual steppes to the New Silk Road 

To help it to realise its projects along the strategic trade corridor between China and Europe, PSA International has mobilised its representatives in Central Asia and its partners in Kazakhstan, among them Digital Silk Way founder Doszhan Zhussupov. [...]

• NEW YORK - StoneTurn brings in a local veteran to get itself off the ground in Singapore.
  

• NEW YORK - Nardello recruits Kennedy in London.

• LONDON - Dragonfly aims to spread its wings.

• ARLINGTON - Deloitte & Touche operates DARPA's cyber recognition programme.

Singapore's Coseinc disappearing from internet following US sanctions 

Since the US Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) placed it under sanctions in November last year, Singapore's Coseinc, which operates the pwn0rama zero-day vulnerabilities programme, is gradually being erased from the internet. [...]

Blacklisted by the US, zero day distributor COSEINC works on for China's Pwnzen 

The US Department of Commerce has put zero day distributor COSEINC on its blacklist alongside leading Israeli companies NSO and Candiru and Russia's Positive Technologies. The firm's founder, Thomas Lim has another revenue source, however. [...]

Far from Beijing, SS8 makes second stab at Asian growth 

After having to close its Chinese offices in 2016, the legal interception specialist SS8 is trying to establish a new presence in Asia Pacific via Singapore. The company has won multiple contracts over the past 18 months. [...]

French cybersecurity startup Xrator sets up shop in Singapore 

Xrator, founded by former cyber specialists from the French defence ministry, is bidding to establish a foothold in the lucrative market in Singapore, where the government is rethinking its cyber defence. [...]

Temasek's ISTARI backs cyber companies of former intelligence officers 

ISTARI, a company created by the Singapore state-owned fund Temasek, is investing in cyber firms run by former intelligence agents. Its latest investment, Prevalent AI, was co-founded by former GCHQ boss Iain Lobban and his former deputy Andrew France. [...]

US looks to Singaporean intelligence hub as it ramps up Indo-Pacific strategy 

Congress is urging Washington to increase collaboration with Singapore's Information Fusion Centre as part of its efforts to deepen intelligence-sharing with the Pacific islands. [...]

SingTel Innov8 finances Australian space ambitions 

In addition to backing US cyber and Chinese artificial intelligence, SingTel Innov8, the venture capital arm of the Singaporean telecoms operator SingTel, is investing in key strategic sectors in Australia. [...]