National Cyber Security Centre

France, Ukraine
Kyiv looks towards France for matters of cybersecurity

Ukrainian cybersecurity agency SSSCIP wants to partner up with its French counterpart, ANSSI, to boost its skills in critical infrastructure protection, cryptography and "qualification".

Japan, United Kingdom
Former Japanese army general Kazuo Tokito joins NCD, the firm bridging UK and Japanese cyber

Japanese consulting firm Nihon Cyber Defence, initially focused on importing the British cyber model to Japan, has recently poached a former Japanese army major general, Kazuo Tokito. The firm however, is more accustomed to operating outside the British and Japanese borders.

Japan, United Kingdom
Nihon Cyber Defence grows into Japan-based relay of Five Eyes cyber model

The consulting firm Nihon Cyber Defence, which is looking to extend its strategic activities beyond the UK and Japan, has hired the US embassy in Canberra's former intelligence liaison officer, John Powers.

Vietnam
Despite corruption probes, Vietnam still holds appeal for cyber companies

The recent charges against agent Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan may have had a negative impact on the Israeli cyber sector's dealings with Vietnam but the country remains a land of opportunities, both civil and miltary, for cyber firms.

The Agencies' Gazette
Abdullah II in Washington, GCHQ, US shipments to Kyiv, Uzbek border guards, Poupard and DGA

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community from Amman to London via Washington, Paris, Tashkent and Kyiv.

Jordan/United States Abdullah II puts intelligence at centre of US visit agenda

United KingdomGCHQ's mystery Manchester accelerator

Ukraine/United StatesWashington determined to fill Ukraine's military gaps

UzbekistanBorder guards on alert

FranceCybersecurity chief eyes defence procurement role

United Kingdom, United States
Arqit plays key role in big quantum encryption projects under development in US and UK

London-based Arqit, which is a key partner of the UK's GCHQ and the US Air Force, is setting the pace in government research on quantum encryption and key distribution in the US and the UK.

Bahrain, Israel, UAE, United Kingdom
UK cyber specialists lose ground as Bahrain strengthens its links with the UAE

The close friendship between Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed ben Zayed Al Nahyan ("MBZ") and Bahrain's Prince Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa has brought a number of leading Israeli cyber firms to Manama, just as the leading British cyber advisers are leaving.

France, United Kingdom, United States
Erys, Hakluyt, Veracity, Amarante, KPMG

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 Paris, London and New York.

United Kingdom
Airbus to install new ciphering system for British Foreign Office

The Franco-German company has won a contract for a new ciphering system for Britain's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) as London looks to deal with a growing espionage threat.

Europe, Israel
Israeli cyber industry sets up shop in Vilnius

Increasingly present in Eastern Europe, Israeli cybersecurity firms, including Thetabyte, TeraSky and Cybergym, are now moving into Lithuania in particular.

United Kingdom
Frazer-Nash Consultancy, US accelerator of British cyberdefence ambitions

Now US-owned, Britain's Frazer-Nash Consultancy is working on the development of autonomous cyberdefence systems for the British armed forces.

United Kingdom
London lays groundwork for British cyber among Gulf allies

CyLon, a British cyber incubator close to the UK government and advised by Israel's former domestic intelligence chief Yuval Diskin, has been developing semi-public accelerators in the Gulf with funding from the Foreign Office, itself keen to export British cyber tools to the region.

United Kingdom
With TBEST, UK intelligence agencies offer telecom companies to hack them

The intelligence-led simulated attack framework geared to the telecommunications industry appears to be one of the most aggressive public private partnerships in Europe.

France, United Kingdom, United States
Western intelligence services tackle challenge of attributing foreign influence operations

The United States, the United Kingdom and France want to ensure they can confidently determine where disinformation campaigns targeting them are coming from.

Saudi Arabia
Tahakom, MBS' latest creation, hastens push into big data

The state-owned cyber technology company Tahakom has recently issued its first tenders for a big data processing tool. Several Western [...]