Direction Generale de la Securite Interieure

France
DRSD positions itself as French defence big data technology hub

France's defence security and intelligence service has developed a number of data tools that it is touting to other branches of the intelligence community.

Spotlight | France
OTDH provides test for French cyber-intelligence ecosystem

The DGSI's trials of the OTDH heterogenous data analysis platform will show if the French cyber marketplace has room for a newcomer unconnected to the traditional defence suppliers Thales, Dassault and Airbus.

France
After Deveryware, Chapsvision targets deal with Ockham

France's ChapsVision is continuing its shopping spree in its domestic big data marketplace. Olivier Dellenbach's group has entered talks with the telephone metadata analysis company Ockham alongside negotiations to acquire Deveryware.

France
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.

France, Israel
French internal intelligence services look at Israeli firm Cognyte's technology

The French interior ministry is taking an interest in virtual human intelligence, or HUMINT, tools, that create and manage avatars on the darkweb. It is evaluating products from Cognyte, a spin-off of the Israeli cyberintelligence market leader Verint.

France, Ukraine
War in Ukraine: Ukrainian delegation to meet with French representatives to discuss arms supplies

France is maintaining its links with Ukraine, while trying to tread a fine line between providing military and logistics support for Ukraine in cooperation with the allies and, at the same time, preparing itself for life in a war economy and developing its own strategic autonomy.

France
Paris Olympic Games intelligence apparatus coming together

The intelligence services have started to put the pieces into place for the Olympic Intelligence Centre (OIC). The Court of Auditors recently warned that in terms of security, France is unprepared for the Paris 2024 Games.

France, South Korea
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.

France
Paris banks on big data to counter foreign economic threats

A finance ministry agency that plays a lead role in protecting France from economic interference, the SISSE, wants to detect threats to strategic assets more effectively by processing big data.

France
Data privacy watchdog reins in spy agencies over IP counterintelligence databases

The CNIL was consulted during the planning of a system designed to protect France's scientific and technical know-how from prying eyes. The watchdog had several reservations, not all of which were followed by French authorities.

France
French government prepares satellite surveillance, under watchdog CNCTR's eye

A government decree greenlighting satellite surveillance tests by the intelligence community is about to be implemented in France, but the country's intelligence watchdog is keeping close tabs.

The Intelligence Gazette
DGSE, Kazakhstan's KGB

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from London to Paris via Nur-Sultan.

Paris the DGSE adopts a TREX

Nur-Sultan the new KNB master's rise signals victory for the Tokayev camp

Paris DGSE more careful on the internet than DGSI

France
Macron gets intelligence services battle ready to protect elections from potential foreign interference

Unlike previous presidential polls, the Elysée is mobilising intelligence services on an unprecedented scale to secure the next election. Behind France's dedicated new agency Viginum, the DGSE, the DGSI and Tracfin are actively trying to prevent new foreign interferences.

France
French Intelligence service dodges compensation claim from former Indian informer

In the absence of a clear, all-purpose legal framework, the intelligence services increasingly find themselves having to fight their former paid informers in court. An Indian informer of the French internal intelligence service has just had his claim thrown out by the French Council of State.

France
Prison intelligence still seeks role within French intelligence community

France's prison intelligence service, the SNRP, the latest part of the French intelligence community to be restructured, still has shortcomings that leave it sidelined.