Europe, Turkey
Recently-founded corporate intelligence firm IDESUS and its backer IKAR hire ex-Hacking Team chairman Paolo Lezzi to help them make mark in cyber

The Corporate Intelligence Gazette
Paris Arbitration Week, Portland, K2, Idesus

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: every Wednesday, we report on events big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community.

ParisInternational firms' interest in arbitration cases keeps growing

LondonKim Darroch stops in at Portland

LondonIdesus files for removal from UK register

WashingtonK2 pushes brakes on financial investigations

United Kingdom
Taro Nordheider displays penchant for luxury and corporate intelligence

Hakluyt and Idesus, which is well-connected in Turkey, operate in the rarefied world of wealthy heirs and luxury goods between London and Vienna.

Spotlight | Azerbaijan, Israel, Turkey
Israeli and Turkish cyber experts make beeline for Baku

Increasingly exposed to Russian cyber activity, Azerbaijan is looking to beef up its cyberdefences, with Israel and Turkey's help.

Ukraine, United States
Consultants appointed to boost Arizona-sponsored American University of Kyiv

The institution backed by Arizona State University has called on a number of consultants with Ukrainian and US investment backgrounds to ensure its successful launch.

Europe, UAE
Obsidium on quest in Gulf with former top intelligence officer Vitale

Since hiring Antonelle Vitale, the former head of analytics for Italy's external intelligence agency and a close friend of former Hacking Team boss David Vincenzetti, in 2020 the Italian cybersecurity company Obsidium is determined to build a strong clientele in the Gulf.

Europe
Ambitious Cy4gate appoints new management team in bid for market leadership

The Italian cyberintelligence company Cy4gate recently made official its plans to take over its rival RCS Lab and hired a new financial director who is experienced in mergers and acquisitions.

Spotlight | Europe
Italy's Cy4gate aims for leadership of national interceptions market come hell or high water

Despite its own technical deficiencies, Cy4gate is determined to take over RCS Labs as a means of establishing itself on the legal interceptions market, just as the Italian government is trying to rationalise its interception activities.

Europe
Italian interception specialist Memento Labs ventures into IMSI catching

Following its takeover by Italian cybersecurity group InTheCyber, Memento Labs has been steadily distancing itself from its Hacking Team origins. It is now looking to break into the interceptions hardware market, starting with IMSI catchers.

Europe
Italian IPS puts down roots in European cyber

The Italian electronic intelligence company IPS has won a contract in European Defence Agency (EDA) maritime surveillance.

Europe
Cy4Gate goes all out to conquer NATO cyber markets

In the context of renewed cyber tensions, Italy's Cy4Gate intends to seize its opportunities as NATO's Information and Communication Agency strengthens its cyber capabilities.

Israel
Intercept 9500 takes offensive tack against cyber-influence ops

As more companies enter the cyber-influence detection market, Israel's Intercept 9500 is taking a step further by offering counter-operations.

Russia, United States
Private threat intelligence companies played key role in helping FBI investigators establish case against GRU cyberspies

Google and other private companies provided the US Department of Justice with intelligence that led to six GRU cyber operatives being indicted.

United Kingdom
GPW carries out internal shakeup after difficult year

GPW has taken advantage of the quiet summer period to overhaul its management. According to our sources, the first major [...]

Italy
Hacking Team’s JWeb role

Italian spyware developer Hacking Team is understood to have helped [...]

United States
New cybersecurity company MeasuredRisk brings together investigations veterans

With K2 Intelligence and Stroz Friedberg already battling one another for leadership of the US cyber-security market in the US, a group of veteran investigators have recently launched new player MeasuredRisk.

United States
McLarty Associates

McLarty Associates, the strategic consulting firm of Bill Clinton's former [...]