Europe, Israel
Thanks to Sopra Steria, Rayzone lands role in Belgian security big data

Israel
New Israeli operator moves into commercial advertising intelligence

The ADINT specialist Bsightful, which normally chases state contracts, is now looking to sell its solutions to businesses.

Belgium
Belgian federal police assemble new OSINT unit

Seeking to strengthen its open source intelligence capabilities, Belgium's federal police has launched a specialised service in Brussels that is, for the moment, using technology from Social Links and Maltego.

Belgium, Israel
Interionet adds another Israeli stamp to Belgium's I-Police programme

The Belgian law enforcement modernisation programme I-Police, led by French firm Sopra Steria, uses video data analytics developed by Israeli firm Interionet. It had already tapped into Israeli tech with tools from cyber specialists Rayzone.

European Union, Israel
ActiveFence's ex-Unit 8200 counter-disinformation specialists eye EU contracts

Last week in Brussels, Israeli startup ActiveFence tried to get closer to the European External Action Service's East StratCom Task Force. The latter's head, Lutz Gülllner, is looking to turn it into a full-fledged European counter-disinformation agency.

Europe
Belgian cyber command takes shape

Belgium will inaugurate its cyber command, closely overseen by military intelligence, on 19 October.

The Tech Telegraph
Rayzone founder goes solo, Grayshift in the EU, AmCham Abu Dhabi cloud, EU maritime security GEOINT

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.

Tel AvivRayzone co-founder Ron Zilka goes solo.

Atlanta/HelsinkiUS Grayshift joins forces with Finland's Moonsoft as it spreads its European wings.

Abu Dhabi/WashingtonAmCham Abu Dhabi ropes in more cloud specialists with Red Hat and Trend Micro.

MadridSpain's GMV to provide algorithms to European Maritime Safety Agency for GEOINT data analysis.

BrusselsAndreas Constantinides, former APCO and Amcham EU, turns European lobbyist for the US cloud.

Spotlight | Europe, Israel
Israeli cyberintelligence firms make beeline for Brussels

After the Middle East and former Eastern European countries, Israeli cyber firms have set their sights on Western Europe, starting with Belgium, which has launched some major programmes to get up to speed in cyber.

Israel
Rayzone loses its cyber chief as it tries to free itself of its reliance on SS7

Rayzone, which has already been weakened by document leaks in trials involving third parties, now needs to fill the hole left by the departure of its chief cyber officer.

Israel
Rayzone's interception modus operandi exposed by legal cases

Cyber-intelligence firms are well aware of the risk of going to court to settle a trade dispute where their most secret operations may be exposed. Rayzone, one of the industry's most established players, has been living through every cyber intelligence firm's worst nightmare over the past few weeks.

Israel
Rayzone provides remote access to monitor IP networks

Chaired by the Yohai Bar-Zakai, the former deputy commander of Unit 8200, Rayzone is looking to corner the market in services to intelligence agencies, from interceptions to cyber-intrusion.