Washington focuses on Talal Al Kaissi in its new UAE cloud offensive

French consultants steer Saudi Arabia's Scopa Industries 

The Saudi Arabian defence company Scopa Industries is tapping into French expertise through offshoots of the Saint-Etienne-based company Meta Productique.

Washington sharpens legal weapons against Beijing in global telecoms war 

Congress is building a legislative arsenal to undercut Beijing's telecoms ambitions in the US and globally, with the help of the intelligence community.

• TEL AVIV - Rayzone co-founder Ron Zilka goes solo.
  

• ATLANTA/HELSINKI - US Grayshift joins forces with Finland's Moonsoft as it spreads its European wings.
  

• ABU DHABI/WASHINGTON - AmCham Abu Dhabi ropes in more cloud specialists with Red Hat and Trend Micro.

• MADRID - Spain's GMV to provide algorithms to European Maritime Safety Agency for GEOINT data analysis.

• BRUSSELS - Andreas Constantinides, former APCO and Amcham EU, turns  European lobbyist for the US cloud.

Ex-Marine exploit hunters launch P3F 

The US cyberintelligence firm P3F, which specialises in training, was recently bought by the US venture capital firm Cyber ​​Capital Partners.

Edge Group central to Turkey-UAE cyber rapprochement 

The UAE and Turkey have several defence bilateral cooperation projects in the works, and are tentatively exploring cyber cooperation, which might be a way for Abu Dhabi's Edge Group to reestablish itself in the cyber-offensive sector.

UAE cyber offensive champion CPX hit by intrusion as internal power battle rages around it 

Despite the attribution of control of the UAE's cyber offensive capacity to Group 42 company CPX, sovereign fund Tawazun has not given up its battle to take charge of the national cyber intelligence sector. Meanwhile, CPX executives are trying to hide the fact that the company has suffered its first attack.

UAE's sovereign fund Tawazun seeks military procurement role in the French mould 

Tawazun, the UAE's civil sovereign fund which handles military procurement, is being empowered to coordinate all state military programmes under the impetus of national security adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The fund is seeking advisers to help it build a more structured local defence industry.

Turkey's Abu Dhabi cyber charm offensive flops at GISEC 

Ankara is trying to lay the foundations of a Turkish-Emirati partnership in cyber defence, but the plan is hampered by lingering mutual mistrust.

Serbia not fussy in choice of partners to boost national digital programme 

The Belgrade government is as happy to call on China and the US as it is on the Emirati firm G42 to develop its digital and technological arsenal, largely funded by its Chinese partner. The UAE cloud firm, itself traditionally close to Beijing, has also turned westward for new opportunities.

Washington concerned about joint Chinese-Emirati push into Europe 

China's part-public group Sinopharm and Group 42, which is dedicated to the special projects of the Emirati national security adviser, have jointly invested in a number of projects in Serbia, sparking growing concern in Washington about the cooperation between the two countries.