France
Thales has room to manoeuvre to land French interceptions platform contract

France
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.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

France
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.

France
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.

France
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.

Spotlight | France
Thales/Ercom deal heralds further concentration in French cyber sector

Thales impending takeover of Ercom is forcing other interception and cyberintelligence firms to find new strategies.

France
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.