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UAE, United Kingdom
Stratia Cyber deploys cybersecurity centres in UAE

The London-based cyber consulting firm Stratia Cyber's outpost in Dubai, Cyberspectre, is spearheading the development of its cybersecurity business in the UAE.

Belarus, Russia
Lukashenko takes care to keep Russophile strongman Karpenkov onside

The regime's creation of a commission supposedly to facilitate the return of political exiles to Belarus is intended to send a message both to Washington and to Belarus's siloviki. The measure is largely symbolic, since powerful deputy internal affairs minister Nikolay Karpenkov is opposed to any attempt to appease the country's dissidents.

France
Anticiper seeks to export DRM's Battle Lab to private sector

The four cofounders of the French firm Anticiper have taken inspiration from French military Intelligence Campus tools to develop solutions for private companies.

Spotlight | China, Europe, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, United States
Nuclear exports: Washington prepares legal and political arsenal as Westinghouse and KEPCO stand by for court action

Washington is preparing a legislative package to help it head off competition from Russia's Rosatom and Chinese groups for new nuclear power plant contracts in Europe and the Middle East. At the same time, US national champion Westinghouse is looking to sideline Korea's KEPCO group.

France
French intelligence services and financial prosecutors increase ties

Discussions between intelligence services and prosecutors probing financial crimes used to be carried out on an informal basis - but now they are intensifying, with an increasing focus on security risks raised by outsourcing anti-corruption work.

Russia
Kremlin-linked Kiriyenkos consolidate influence over cyber and big data markets

Anton Gerasimov's appointment as deputy head of the Ministry of Emergencies adds another link in the chain forming between the Ministry of Digitalisation and Rostelecom around presidential adviser Sergey Kiriyenko.

China
'Shaanxi Gang' on the rise during Xi's third term

From anti-corruption campaigns to the Central Military Commission, more and more strategic Chinese Communist Party positions are being filled by members who hail from or forged their political career in the president's home province of Shaanxi.

Albania, Israel, UAE
Abu Dhabi ready to bankroll Israeli-Albanian cyber teamwork

Under pressure from cyberattacks from Iran, Albania has strengthened its cyber partnership with Israel. The small-budget country could get a welcome financial boost from the United Arab Emirates to help it acquire this Israeli expertise.

The Agencies' Gazette
Intelligence Academy seeks director, Abbas Ibrahim's mandate, Moscow's anti-drone battle, CIA's PCRB problem, Bulgarian intelligence

Appointments, reforms and the issues at stake: every Monday, Intelligence Online serves up snippets big and small from the global intelligence community. This week we look at Moscow, Washington, Paris, Sofia and Beirut.

France Intelligence Academy advertises for new director

Lebanon Berri joins push to extend Ibrahim's mandate

Russia Intelligence at forefront of fight against drones

United States CIA publication review process questioned

Bulgaria Internal security under scrutiny

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".

Kazakhstan, United States
Kazakh opposition turns to US courts to hasten asset recovery efforts

Kazakh political activists have trained their sights on companies registered in Nevada as part of a drive to speed up ill gotten asset recovery investigations.

China, Hong Kong
From Hong Kong to Taiwan, Xi Jinping wants shift from 'one country, two systems' to single government

By setting up Hong Kong as a testing ground, the Chinese Communist Party is establishing itself as the definitive body for judging any form of resistance to the National Security Law. Xi Jingping is hopeful of shortly being able to apply that same governance in Taiwan.

Ukraine
Ukrainian military cyber gets into shape for NATO outpost role

Hastily put together with volunteers a few months before the start of the Russian invasion, Ukraine's cyber command is shaping up for its new role as part of NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE).

The Tech Telegraph
Interrupt Labs in the US and Australia, Luxembourg police biometrics, Infinity Technology for Missile Defense Agency's CTI

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.

LondonUK vulnerability researcher Interrupt Labs looks for talent in US and Australia

LuxembourgPolice fork out on Sopra Steria biometrics

WashingtonInfinity Technology in charge of MDA threat intelligence

Indonesia, United Kingdom
Cyber Capacity Unit champions British cyber diplomacy in Indonesia

Then UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has turned to the consultancy firm Cyber Capacity Unit to present its cyber tools in Asia.

Israel
Israeli intelligence mobilised in response to renewed violence

Worried Israeli senior security officials have warned Benjamin Netanyahu that the country's new far-right government's punitive response to Palestinian strikes may worsen the security situation.

Kazakhstan
KazMunayGas seeks partners to help find Caspian Sea export routes

Kazakhstan's national oil company wants to make the most of the Caspian Sea as a source of strategic new oil transport routes. The company chairman Magzum Mirzagaliev has been reaching out to potential foreign partners able to assist in the task.

United States
NSA banks on work-study contracts to meet hiring challenge

With plans to take on 3000 new staff, the NSA's ambitious recruitment drive reveals Washington's emphasis on electromagnetic and cyber intelligence. But filling these vacancies is also proving to be a challenge, which the agency plans to meet through significant investments in training.