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Anissa Saunder joins CPX, Brian Frutchey leaves Bigbear, Bugsec shakes up management

Whether in SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT or cyber, we report each week on developments great and small in the world of the technical intelligence providers.

Abu DhabiFrance's Saunder joins UAE cyberintelligence firm CPX.

ArlingtonBigBear loses technology director.

Tel-AvivBortman appointed new head of Israeli cybersecurity firm Bugsec.

UAE
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.

Spotlight | UAE
Edge Group to pilot Abu Dhabi's multi-constellation spy satellites programme

The United Arab Emirates aims to achieve operational independence in geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) through the construction of four constellations of surveillance satellites. This major project is being overseen by E mirati defence conglomerate Edge Group.

UAE
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.

Spotlight | UAE
After the takeover of cyber specialist Digital14, Edge heads into Asia

Discreetly integrated into Edge this month, the cyber specialist Digital14 is refocusing its activity on secure platforms, at a time when the semi-public defence group is trying to export itself outside Emirati borders.

France, UAE
Reem Lababidi crafts Franco-Emrati cyber contracts

Reem Lababidi, a UAE cyber deals specialist, is taking on new French companies looking to export to the Middle East, where defensive and offensive capacities are much in demand.

France, UAE
CybelAngel targets sovereign UAE market from new Dubai base

After two years of working in the Gulf, CybelAngel is opening an outpost in Dubai where it is looking to gain a more solid footing in the UAE's part-public cyber sector, prey to internal power struggles.

UAE
Digital14 poised for takeover by Edge Group

With his takeover of the country's security sector complete, the UAE's National Security Adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is about to make Digital14, owned by ADQ, a part of Edge Group's Electronic Warfare & Cyber Technologies cluster.

UAE
Former FinFisher boss gives boost to Abu Dhabi's new rising star

After years running Germany's FinFisher Labs, Carlos Gandini moved into consultancy and is now providing his expertise to the UAE's latest cyber intelligence unit, CPX.

UAE
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.

Spotlight | UAE
Tahnoon places his cronies to spearhead cyber offensive flagship CPX

Abu Dhabi's national security adviser is readying Digital 14 spinoff CPX's troops for battle by appointing four UAE cyber sector strongmen to its board, strengthening connections to Group 42.

UAE
Abu Dhabi officially gives cyber offence industry a makeover

After several months under the radar, the existence of D14 spin-off CPX, revealed by Intelligence Online is now official. CPX, still part of D14 and Group 42, promises a fresh start for Emirati cybersecurities.

UAE
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.

UAE
UAE's Digital14 reshuffles top line-up as it draws closer to EDGE Group

The Emirati firm has quietly begun to overhaul its management as it continues to align itself with the state-owned defence group, all the while forming closer ties with Israeli cyber specialists.

India, UAE
UAE cybersecurity firm Digital14 sets up shop in hackers-for-hire capital New Delhi

The Emirati cybersecurity firm Digital14, which operates the Darkmatter-established vulnerabilities laboratory xen1thLabs, now has an office in India, reflecting the closer cyber cooperation between the two countries.

Israel, UAE
CommuniTake pitches challenger to DarkMatter's secure telephone solution Katim on its ground

CommuniTake is one of an array of Israeli companies looking to sell their solutions to Abu Dhabi in the wake of the normalisation between the UAE and Israel. The firm will tout its secure communications system at Dubai's Gisec upcoming trade fair, where it will compete with Darkmatter's Katim, distributed in the UAE by Digital14.

Spotlight | UAE
Al Nahyan battle plays out behind Edge turbulence

Detentions, investigations and forced resignations from the Abu Dhabi defence conglomerate EDGE and the national oil company ADNOC are at the heart of a power struggle rocking the emirate's ruling dynasty.