Bulgaria, Israel, UAE
Abu Dhabi cyber taps into Israeli-Bulgarian expertise

UAE
Expat arrests in Abu Dhabi cyber sector

Intelligence Online can reveal that several expats working in the Emirati cyber sector are currently in prison. The murky case involves national security, and the embassies concerned are remaining silent. The situation could have repercussions for Western companies that have worked with those detained.

UAE
AI, 6G, UAV, weapons system: Abu Dhabi's spymasters structure their tech research tools

Faisal al-Bannai, the head of the UAE's defence industry, is hard at work strengthening Abu Dhabi's new technology research tools. President Mohammed bin Zayed's right-hand man for cyber is accelerating the creation of a sovereign defence industry, with help from Western experts.

Bahrain, UAE
Emirati cyber makes push into Bahrain

Bahrain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is getting closer to Abu Dhabi's cyber security firm Beacon Red.

UAE
X99 opens doors in UAE for OSINT specialists

The Emirati company has a number of partnerships with open source intelligence firms operating in the UAE, to meet the country's growing demand for these services.

The Tech Times
France's DGSE turns to LLM, US cracks down on cyber industry, Preligens' Rennes changes

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.

Paris French intelligence service focuses on Large Language Models

Washington Congress ponders cyber-intelligence sanctions

Rennes Preligens restructures ahead of funding round

The Tech Times
Snowpack goes global, Beacon Red in Singapore, MIL Corp helps NAWCAD in cyber

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

Paris Snowpack turns to RB 42 for international business development

Singapore Beacon Red showcases offensive cyber technologies

Washington NAWCAD draws on MIL Corp's cyber expertise

The Tech Times
Tesseract Intelligence in UAE, DARPA's underwater acoustic sensors, Skyral Defence

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

Abu DhabiBulgaria's Tesseract Intelligence sets sights on UAE via Pegasus

United StatesDARPA seeking to develop new acoustic sensor for deep-sea surveillance

LondonNOIA Capital makes adjustments at new firm specialised in VR training platforms

Israel
Latin America continues to attract Israeli cyber firms

Daniel Geifman, previously with Intellexa, has recently launched Totem Solutions, a firm exporting cyber solutions to Latin America. Despite the negative press it has received there, Israeli cyber remains sought-after in that part of the world.

UAE
UAE's Edge Group and G42 get into natural language processing

Natural language processing, popularised by ChatGPT, is of particular interest to the UAE's security apparatus conglomerates for their big data and open source intelligence (OSINT) programmes. The technology also promises to offer new firms in the sector a means to conduct low-cost influence operations.

UAE
After Flashpoint, Laith Alkouri launches cyberintelligence solutions distributor

Now based in the United Arab Emirates, Flashpoint co-founder Laith Alkouri has recently launched the intelligence technologies distributor Intelonyx, which already has some heavyweight cyber threat intelligence partnerships.

India, UAE, United Kingdom
Alliance of Jaitly, Kinetic and Pegasus makes push into UAE cyber

Although the UAE is developing its own intelligence technology industry it continues to attract distributors of foreign solutions, such as Vikrant Jaitly, Kinetic and Pegasus.