Egypt, France
Nexa executives charged over Egyptian intelligence contracts

Canada
Trovicor, a European pioneer in interception, goes under Canadian ownership

Originally from Germany but taken over by French owners, the owner of Trovicor's successor has just been bought out by a Canadian telecoms giant.

Europe, Israel
Intellexa builds new cyber-intelligence empire thanks to rivals' dropped contracts

Cyber-intelligence veteran Tal Dilian is increasingly in the media spotlight after Washington blacklisted his companies, potentially hampering his rapid success over the last two years, achieved by picking up contracts from competitors beset by legal challenges.

France
DGSE heard in Amesys case

French courts are trying to unravel the French foreign intelligence service's involvement in the Libyan and Egyptian aspects of the case being brought against interception specialist Amesys (now Nexa Technologies) for "complicity in torture".

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ChapsVision, MissionLinks, Peraton

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT and a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

ParisFormer Nexa chief Renaud Roques joins ChapsVision.

RestonOcient and BlackHorse CEOs join US intelligence suppliers assciation MissionLink.Next.

Herndon, VirginiaPeraton strengthens intelligence programmes with new former CIA team.

Spotlight | France, Germany, Italy
Germany and Italy come to forefront at global intelligence summits

The return of international cyber summits allows observers to track changes in goals set by companies from countries keen to export their wares. German and Italy have picked up the pace as France falls behind.

France
ANSSI given say on French cyberintelligence exports

The French government has launched its reform of dual-use cyberintelligence tools exports by giving decision-making powers to the country's computer and information security agency ANSSI regarding cryptology technology.

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
Thales has room to manoeuvre to land French interceptions platform contract

With Nexa and Deveryware facing legal and administrative woes, the pool of candidates to operate the French justice ministry's new interceptions platform has shrunk substantially.

Spotlight | France, Saudi Arabia
ODAS contracts face scrutiny as part of Nexa probe

French examining magistrates probing the sale of Nexa cyber tools to Egypt want to extend their investigation to Saudi Arabian contracts as well, a development that is causing concern among a number of companies that supplied materiel through the export office ODAS.

Egypt, France
Marc Baréty appointed French ambassador in Cairo

The former French ambassador in Baghdad and current Islamabad ambassador Marc Baréty has landed the coveted top slot at the Egyptian embassy, where he will work to cultivate Franco-Egyptian defence and security cooperation.

Egypt, France
Sisi makes loud show of cooperation with DGSE

DGSE chief Bernard Emié's supposedly secret visit to Cairo last week to boost Franco-Egyptian intelligence cooperation ended up in the Egyptian press.

Egypt, France
Thales consultant Assem advises French MPs

A discreet consultant who used to work for some key French defence groups had a hand in a report released [...]