Security

United States
USCYBERCOM in search of zero-day provider

Via the Joint Cyber Weapons programme, the US Cyber Command is looking for a supplier able to find zero-day vulnerabilities and be operable for a variety of future missions.

Russia
Russia focuses on increasingly strategic Arctic

The Kremlin is determined that sanctions will not affect business in the Arctic. With official encouragement, Russian business leaders are changing the map of the region in the wake of an exodus by Western companies.

The Tech Times
Anno.io, French navy, Keysight Technologies, XCI

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

Reston Brain drain at Anno.io.

Paris/Brest Athanor to renew French navy AIS.

New York US electronic warfare specialist Keysight Technologies loses CTO.

Aalborg Danish DPI firm XCI reorganises sales team.

France
AID seeds new information warfare capacities with Bloom

Being a target in the informational warfare triggered by the Russia-Ukraine war, France has been actively seeking out the latest cyber intelligence tools, notably by deploying the start-up Bloom on social media.

Belarus, Hong Kong
Sarmat Analytix, a newcomer to the political risk market in the post-Soviet space

Two Minsk-based veterans of the analysis of political and military dynamics in Eurasia are planning to open a consulting firm in Hong Kong.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
JS Held, Raedas, K2, Kic Systems, Exera

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 New York, Washington and Brussels.

New York Dookhie leaves K2 for NYU

Washington Yearwood, from FTI to JS Held

Brussels CJUE relieves Kic Systems client of corruption charges

Washington Raedas chooses a connoisseur of the village

Brussels EU security service provider renewed in Myanmar

Russia
From Moscow to Ukraine, demand for Rosgvardia continues to grow

The Russian paramilitary security service Rosgvardia is being stretched to its limits, as it is being deployed in the conquered areas of Ukraine and in its homeland, where the Ministry of the Interior needs it to ensure officials' safety.

France, Kuwait
Paris and Kuwait City prepare launch of new business club

The French and Kuwaiti foreign ministers are bidding to boost bilateral relations with a new Franco-Kuwaiti business club. It's set to include the private equity firm Ardian and French organisations looking to become involved in Kuwait's economic future.

Italy
Negg sets out to conquer international market

Italian cyber-intelligence company Negg is looking to win contracts abroad by creating a network of partners and resellers.

Ukraine
Kyiv remains determined to crack down on oligarchs despite war

Faced with the EU, the UK and the US's good governance demands, the Ukrainian government is being very vocal about its determination to curb the influence of oligarchs in strategic sectors - and hunt down their assets by the same token.

North Korea, Russia
Isolated Moscow revives industrial and academic relations with Pyongyang

Ater a break of two years caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Moscow wants to resume a series of joint industrial projects with its Asian neighbour, while staying within the tight restrictions imposed by the United Nations.

Libya, Russia, United Kingdom, United States
Ex-CIA agent Dan Hoffman joins CT Group in Washington

The Washington office of the intelligence division of political strategists Mark Textor and Lynton Crosby's CT Group has recruited Daniel Hoffman, a media-friendly former CIA officer in Eurasia.

Iraq
GardaWorld retains FCDO security mega-contract in Iraq

The Canadian operator will continue to protect British representatives in Baghdad and Erbil, while eyeing up several EU delegation security contracts in the country.

Russia
Moscow stirs up personal data hornet's nest

Personal data, biometric data, civil registration: Russia's lawmakers have been tweaking the law to give its security services greater control of these hot-button files.

Australia
After Azimuth, Mark Dowd returns to vulnerability research with Vigilant Labs

Vigilant Labs, a new zero-day research company set up by one of the founders of Fives Eyes alliance provider Azimuth Security, has hired its first researcher, Amat Cama, an expert in hacking mobile device modem chips.

United Kingdom
British intelligence revamps in face of extreme right-wing terrorism

Increasingly concerned by the threat of extreme right-wing terrorism, the government has put MI5 on the frontline of its counter efforts. The Intelligence and Security Committee is taking stock of these developments.

China, United States
US State Department gets budget for Chinese counter-influence in Indo-Pacific

To stem China's rise in the region, US diplomacy plans to implement economic security measures and develop counter-influence programmes, notably in Cambodia and Sri Lanka.