France
Cyber contract specialist Pierre Jeanne takes helm at Suneris

France
French Comcyber provider Sahar secures new funding

French mass data analysis company Sahar is set to welcome a new minority shareholder shortly.

France, West Africa
Suneris's African contracts in turmoil

French cyber-intelligence firm Suneris has seen its customer states fall, one after the other, in the recent series of coups in Africa. Not only are its contracts at risk, but the confidentiality of its technologies could be breached.

France, UAE
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.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
Othrys, Ercom, Hart Security, Risk&Co

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both big and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week we go to London and Paris.

LondonA TV producer at the helm of intelligence firm Othrys.

ParisErcom and Suneris made full Thales units with Cyril Autant appointment.

LondonHart Security to dispatch intelligence experts to UK's most at-risk embassies.

ParisRisk&Co brings ex-Amarante manager Dimitri Akarawitage to boost corporate security management line.

Spotlight | France, Saudi Arabia
ODAS contracts face scrutiny as part of Nexa probe

French examining magistrates probing the sale of Nexa cyber tools to Egypt want to extend their investigation to Saudi Arabian contracts as well, a development that is causing concern among a number of companies that supplied materiel through the export office ODAS.

France
Thales poised to acquire DGSE favourite SIGINT specialist Ercom

Intelligence Online can reveal that the French Defense Giant Thales has make an offer to buy Ercom.