Atos Digital Security to chaperone Aleph on cybersecurity market

Cristal snaps up French intelligence Africa specialists 

Kevin Rivaton's corporate intelligence firm Cristal Group has taken on a number of French intelligence Africa specialists and opened an office in Mauritius with a view to growing its business on the continent.

Newcomer ChapsVision makes acquisition play for geolocation veteran Deveryware 

ChapsVision is now in exclusive negotiations to take control of Deveryware, an acquisition that would further bolster a group angling for some of the French government's most sensitive technical intelligence contracts.

European Commission pieces together its OSINT platform 

The European Commission wants to help its member counties lacking in open source intelligence tools ramp up their capacities in the field but its protocols around contracting parties is slowing down the process.

• LYONS/PARIS - Corporate intelligence operator Cristal Group buys into dark web investigator Aleph Networks.

• SAN FRANCISCO - Bishop Garrison, Paravision's new government affairs ambassador.
  

• ABU DHABI - Will Peng Wu takes charge of new G42 investment fund.
  

• DENVER - Former White House Internet specialist Daniel Weitzner quits Palantir's privacy and civil liberties council.

AID seeds new information warfare capacities with Bloom 

Being a target in the informational warfare triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war, France has been actively seeking out the latest cyber intelligence tools, notably by deploying the start-up Bloom on social media.

Who will shoulder the interior ministry to ensure the 2024 Paris Olympics' cybersecurity? 

Determined to make the 2024 Paris Olympics a success in terms of cybersecurity, the French interior ministry is scanning the market for start-ups focusing mainly on the fields of mass data analysis and open source intelligence (OSINT) to help secure the games.

South Korean intelligence eyes up Aleph Networks' cyber tools 

French dark web specialist Aleph Networks' tools are attracting interest from Seoul's intelligence services. Struggling with their neighbour, North Korea, the services are in the midst of a major overhaul and are working hard to develop their cyber capacities.

ChapsVision takes up strong position in interceptions thanks to Elektron takeover 

ChapsVision, which is determined to take up a dominant position among French cyber intelligence industry, has taken control of French interceptions specialist Elektron from the waning Nexa Technologies group.

DGSE hires Aleph-Networks to scour dark web 

The external intelligence agency has enlisted a private service provider to help its teams monitor the non-referenced part of the web.