ALL ARTICLES - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

• NEW YORK - K2 quietly demotes co-CEO

• ABU DHABI - Consultant Charles Peterson returns to nuclear

• WASHINGTON - Ex-staffer takes Guidehouse to court

UAE cyber-offensive firm Beacon Red's Russian hackers disillusioned 

Less that six months after their arrival in the emirates, some of the Russian cyber engineers hired by the UAE's part public cyber-offensive company Beacon Red are unhappy about pay and are looking to leave.

Guillaume de Villiers takes luxury property outfit Barnes and security and intelligence firm Oriol to Dubai 

Guillaume de Villiers, a veteran of private security and luxury property in Russia, is prospecting in Dubai, a safe haven for wealthy Russians fleeing Moscow and Western sanctions.

Moscow investigations firm Gambit Global Intelligence expands Emirati footprint 

The small company, which specialises in complex transnational investigations and has good connections from Geneva to Dubai, is taking advantage of the exodus of its Western competitors on the Russian market.

Faced with Israeli resellers, foreign zero-day specialists flock to Abu Dhabi 

The UAE is home to a growing number of unregistered vulnerability (zero-day) resellers, such as newcomers Vulns Security and Operation Zero. The Emirati authorities welcome this counterbalance to an over-reliance on Israel in this sector.

Russian vulnerabilities reseller Operation Zero tries its luck in the Gulf 

The zero-day vulnerabilities firm headed by Russian hacker Sergei Zelenyuk has been prospecting in Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

• MOSCOW - NtechLab founders' distance from firm not so clean cut

• DUBAI/ROME - Italy's Secom opens door to Europe for Rakia Group 

• WASHINGTON - Israeli anti-drone specialist Convexum after voice in Congress 

• LYON - Interpol seeks to monitor the seas 

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Emirates seek direct investment in French tech 

During the GISEC cybersecurity forum in Dubai, the UAE's Cyber Security Council (CSC) approached several businesses to try to push Emirati investments forward. The agency made an unsuccessful attempt with French-American firm CybelAngel.

How the Wegener-Jayaraman duo extended their cyber empire to the UAE 

Heading up a small conglomerate of cyber firms in Singapore, Barcelona and Cyprus, the duo Ralf Wegener and Ramanan Jayaraman have managed to implant their technologies in the UAE. Through Variston IT, they've grown close to the country's key cyber player.

UAE, Saudi Arabia, India and South Korea secretly supply missiles to Ukraine 

While officially neutral, a number of Western defence industry client countries are indirectly helping Ukraine's war effort by providing access to their weaponry stocks. Intelligence Online investigates the supply of French Crotale, Mistral and Milan missiles for use against Russia.

Ahmed Al Shafar, the strongman of Dubai's defence dealings with Israel 

At the heart of the United Arab Emirates' peace and defence deal with Israel is Dubai's Al Shafar family, a partner of several Israeli defence groups. As long-standing allies of the emirate's ruling Al Maktoum family, this clan finds itself at the root of a gentleman's agreement between Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

CPX struggles to spearhead UAE's cyberoffensive operations 

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.

• TEL AVIV - Dream Security poaches Tenable's product management director

• DUBAI - Kaymera carried by SAT in the UAE

• HERZLIYA - Fischler joins Interionet to lead European sales

• WASHINGTON - GAO confirms Boeing pick for DIA's SITE III programme

Hack for hire: ENRC aims to open up Dechert and Nick del Rosso's Pandora's box 

Kazakh mining group ENRC is already pursuing a legal and investigative campaign of unprecedented scale and complexity. Now, it is overseeing the start of fresh legal action against its nemesis, Neil Gerrard, his old law firm Dechert, and, by the same token, Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO).

UAE's Edge Group and G42 get into natural language processing 

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.

Abu Dhabi builds rapprochement with Turkey through electronic warfare industry 

Electronic warfare firms are a major part of the current defence industry negotiations between Turkey and the UAE, which have yet to reach an agreement on the sensitive issues of the terms and financing of partnerships.