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Macron gets intelligence services battle ready to protect elections from potential foreign interference

Unlike previous presidential polls, the Elysée is mobilising intelligence services on an unprecedented scale to secure the next election. Behind France's dedicated new agency Viginum, the DGSE, the DGSI and Tracfin are actively trying to prevent new foreign interferences. [...]

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Aleph Networks
Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique
Centre d'analyse et de lutte informatique défensive
Colmi
COMCYBER
Conseil constitutionnel
Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
David Robert
DGSE
DGSI
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Gabriel Ferriol
Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur Internet
Marc-Antoine Brillant
Olivier Cadic
Sahar
SGDSN
Storyzy
Thierry Burkhard
Tracfin
Viginum

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France's 2023 budget bill spells good news for intelligence services' real estate and cyber plans

The explanatory annexes of France's 2023 budget bill, published on 4 October, shed light on the financial requirements of the French intelligence services, split between major construction projects and needs for mass data processing tools.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 10.10.2022

The Fort of Vincennes will be the future headquarters of the DGSE in 2028.

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Anti-disinformation agency Viginum seeks to move up a gear after a year in operation

Officially launched in July 2021, Viginum counters foreign influence operations, a goal that is now a priority for the French government.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 18.08.2022

France
Military procurement agency's cyber branch strides into French anti-disinformation apparatus

Among its hundreds of new cyber recruits, the information control department of the French military procurement agency, the DGA, will create an information warfare taskforce to give the ministry of armed forces the technical means to achieve its goals.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 31.05.2022

France
France sets up 'CIA' to strengthen inter-ministerial cooperation on crisis and threat anticipation

The Comité Interministériel d'Anticipation (CIA), a little known committee overseen by France's general defence and national security secretariat, the SGDSN, has been set up to coordinate inter-ministerial forward planning on security and defence matters. It should benefit French strategic planning - but also public spending.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 11.03.2022

France
Viginum slots into France administrative counterintelligence landscape

President Emmanuel Macron's anti-fake news unit has joined a crowded landscape where various roles overlap.

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The complex task of replacing DGSE head Bernard Emié

After a reign set to coincide with Macron's five-year term, Bernard Emié's succession at the head of the DGSE is currently being prepared. Potential candidates are flocking to apply, but the incumbent will have to take on major projects, all within a DGSE in a state of flux.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 04.02.2022

France, Sahel
Amarante to monitor influence operations in the Sahel for French defence ministry

The ministry of armed forces has hired the French security group Amarante to conduct a study of the networks and relays of influence in G5 Sahel countries. The French government is increasingly concerned about foreign interference campaigns in the region, where it has plans for its own strategy of influence.

Subscribers only Corporate Intelligence 25.01.2022

France
Elysée Palace weighs in to solve French intel staffing woes

Understaffed units, top-heavy management, recruitment difficulties and brain drain are among the human resources challenges that intelligence coordinator Laurent Nunez's team has been entrusted with tackling.

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France
Tracfin's next director to start with a full plate of challenges

Because of its broad scope, the French financial intelligence service Tracfin, if used well, could become a handy intelligence warfare tool. But after Maryvonne Le Brignonen's controversial directorship the unit is facing numerous challenges, both internal and external.

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France
Viginum and DGSI consider partnering with defence-backed startups to fight fake news

With four months to go before the French presidential elections, Sahar and Storyzy, two start-ups backed in their early days by the French armed forces ministry, are leading the field for contracts to equip the DGSI and Viginum - the second on the advice of the first - with cyber systems to fight fake news.

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France
France's SGDSN budget finances new anti-fake news technology for Viginum

France's new anti-fake news service Viginum has been allocated €4m to procure technology and hire 25 additional staff in signs which suggest the service is poised to work more closely with the French intelligence community.

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Spotlight | France
Behind showcase Viginum, Colmi committee takes lead in French anti-fake news efforts

The French government is organising its intelligence services' push against foreign disinformation. The General secretariat for defense and national security laid in early August the roles military intelligence and domestic intelligence will play within the newly formed Operational committee against information manipulation (Colmi).

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 23.08.2021

France
Aleph builds network analytics tool for French military intelligence

The Drones project, developed in part by Aleph Networks, will help France's military intelligence analysts better understand network dynamics and monitor influence and propaganda operations. The tool will also be rolled out for use by the private sector.

Subscribers only Surveillance & Interception 23.07.2021

France
New Caledonia inches towards centre stage of intelligence concerns

Fears over China's interest in New Caledonia has been gradually creeping into France's security apparatus. The French archipelago offers a life-size test of Paris' capacity to assert its position as a Pacific Ocean power opposite China.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 10.06.2021

Spotlight | France
French anti-fake news service Honfleur sets up management team

A new French counter-disinformation service is set to be operational in September. Several obstacles, however, still remain.

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France, United Kingdom, United States
Western intelligence services tackle challenge of attributing foreign influence operations

The United States, the United Kingdom and France want to ensure they can confidently determine where disinformation campaigns targeting them are coming from.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 12.05.2021

France
French computer security agency ANSSI getting bolder about cyberattack attribution

France has stood apart from its Western allies by stopping short of publicly blaming another country for a cyberattack. But the French computer security agency ANSSI is now starting to speak out.

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France
"Saruman" political Islam intelligence cell on cards

With the current vote in the French parliament on the bill against religious separatism, the French intelligence community is being [...]

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 10.02.2021

France
Emmanuel Macron launches anti-fake news task force Honfleur

France's main intelligence services have been roped into a project coordinated by its Secretariat-General for National Defence and Security (SGDSN), which will identify private companies which could help tackle disinformation.

Subscribers only Government Intelligence 01.02.2021

France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
French absent from international cooperation that led to GRU hackers' indictment

When US prosecutors thanked allies for their help in bringing charges against six Russian military intelligence officials last week, there was no mention of France.

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