Thales has room to manoeuvre to land French interceptions platform contract

The presidential election over, France's cyber sector goes into battle mode 

Now that the vote is done and dusted, France's cyber industrialists are hoping that fresh progress will be able to be made on the country's big cyber projects, particularly the new generation national interceptions platform.

• 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.

DRM interested in Deveryware's telephony data analysis software 

As it continues to iron out the details of its mass data analysis programme Artemis, France's military intelligence service has turned its attention to a telephony data analytics programme developed by Deveryware.

Nexa hands French tools over to Elektron after indictment 

Still reeling from the indictment of its directors in June, the French interceptions specialist Nexa Technologies is selling its French activities to its sister company Elektron.

Nexa executives charged over Egyptian intelligence contracts  Free

According to our information, the three top managers at French interceptions company Nexa Technologies have been charged with "complicity in the use of torture".

Justice ministry watches its back with new lawful interception project 

After the flak it received over the shortcomings of its national interceptions platform, the PNIJ, the justice ministry is proceeding with caution on the modernisation of the system.

French government takes back control of communications interception platform from Thales 

After having run into all sorts of problems since it struck up a major agreement with the electronics group in 2008, the French Ministry of Justice is to take judge-sanctioned communications interception back in-house in 2019 according to Intelligence Online's sources.