Digital14 poised for takeover by Edge Group

Katim looks to Paris, hiring ex-Ercom Didier Pagnoux 

Didier Pagnoux, who ran French Ercom from 2007 to 2012 and launched its cybersecurity and interception departments, is taking over as CEO of semi-public Emirati firm Katim as it looks to carve out a place in the country's ever-changing cyber landscape.

CPX struggles to spearhead UAE's cyberoffensive operations 

Supposed to be the UAE's new cyberintelligence flagship, CPX is struggling to make its mark and hold on to contracts because of technological gaps at a time when other parapublic cyber firms are gaining ground.

OryxLabs, shelter for ex-DarkMatter and Digital14 cyber specialists 

The Abu Dhabi-based OryxLabs' Abu Dhabi office is building a team of battle-hardened cyber-attack experts to pitch its zero-day exploit hunting and DNS cybersecurity services in the Middle East.

Finland's Bittium behind Edge's new Katim secure phone 

Know-how from Finland is still very much a part of the new Katim X-2 secure telephone system, now distributed by Edge Group, thanks to cooperation with the Nordic country's Bittium.

• ABU DHABI - France's Saunder joins UAE cyberintelligence firm CPX.
  

• ARLINGTON - BigBear loses technology director.
  

• TEL-AVIV - Bortman appointed new head of Israeli cybersecurity firm Bugsec.

EDGE Group beefs up export apparatus 

The part-publicly owned conglomerate has set up a new global division to handle exports, while building import channels for its cyber cluster.

Injazat management team swept away in UAE cyber sector restructuring 

The wind of change sweeping through the Emirati cyber sector has finally caught up with cyber defence leader Injazat. It has replaced its top management team with cloud and smart city experts recruited from Western leaders in these sectors.

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.

Emirati cyber offensive business to be switched from Digital14 to CPX 

In the latest development in the power struggle taking place in the Al Nahyan clan, cyber security company Digital14 is about to be reorganised. In line with a now well-established routine, it will be succeeded by a new Emirati cyber offensive avatar.

Digital14 picks up Darkmatter's key activities, including the vulnerabilities researcher xen1thLabs  Free

With DarkMatter having already been separated from its cyberoffensive activities, a number of its cyber-security activities have now been taken over by Abu Dhabi's new Digital14.