Group 42, the AI company controlled by Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan has all sorts of connections with Beijing.
In a critical report on Britain's National Security and Investment Bill (NSIB) published on 19 January, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee [...]
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The current reform of South Korea's intelligence service, the National Intelligence Service (NIS), is delighting politicians inside and outside South [...]
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While he substantially reshuffled power within the ruling family on 11 January, the Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al [...]
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The head of Jordan's General Intelligence Directorate (GID), Ahmed Husni, made a surprise visit to Ramallah on 17 January with [...]
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Lloyd Austin, the new Defense Secretary under President Joe Biden, indicated during his Senate hearing last week that the Indo-Pacific [...]
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Austria's internal intelligence service, the BvT, has completed a year-long restructuring (IOL 856), it said on January 11. Franz Ruf, [...]
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According to several sources close to the National Directorate of Security (DNS), the Afghan intelligence service, Iran is consolidating its [...]
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Israel's shift to US CENTCOM provides it and its new Arab allies with new intelligence-sharing opportunities.
The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) appointed Major General Michelle [...]
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The British parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee received help with its [...]
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Texas Democratic Representative Sheila Jackson Lee did not wait for [...]
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The budgets of Britain's three main intelligence agencies (MI6, MI5 [...]
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The DGSI, France's internal intelligence service, could find itself in [...]
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Du Wenlong joined the defence desk of the state-run news [...]
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The French Air Force and the General Staff, or EMA, [...]
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Mikhail Babich has been appointed deputy director of the Federal [...]
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Emmanuel Bonne, diplomatic adviser to Emmanuel Macron, visited India earlier this month amid strengthening security ties between the two countries, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
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The U.S. military footprint in Iraq, greatly reduced in 2020, is now concentrated mainly in Baghdad. But the persistent threats against the "green zone" are causing the US to consider options to shift more troops to Kurdistan.
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From Abu Dhabi, where he lives in exile, Gaza's Mohammed Dahlan coordinated the delivery of a humanitarian convoy to the Palestinian enclave, providing an opportunity to garner support from beyond his circle of allies.
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Matrix Partners China has invested in several of China's biggest space startups such as iSpace, Changguang and Gago.
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Drones, cyber-defence experts, security operations centres and even a new private security company are part of a package of measures that Saudi Arabia is spending on to secure its futuristic new city.
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Despite their involvement in the delivery of adulterated oil to Lebanon, brothers Raymond and Teddy Rahmeh still occupy a key role in the supply chain.
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Ismail Demir, chairman of the Turkish defence procurement agency, was placed under economic sanctions and visa restrictions by the United States in December. The move will have an immediate impact on a number of US suppliers to the Turkish military.
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Sweden's Saab and other contenders are stepping up to bid to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's CF-18 fighters.
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UN agencies continue to have business relations with the Damascus regime but some prefer to reveal little about their contracts with local tycoons.
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After months of surveillance, Turkish authorities last week arrested Yusuf Hakan Ozbilgin, the former director for drones at the Turkish [...]
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Mediapart's revelation about the preliminary investigation by the French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) into Nicolas Sarkozy's contract with Russian [...]
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At the end of last year, Duff & Phelps and its corporate intelligence division Kroll submitted their report for Denmark's [...]
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Following a tender awarded on January 16, the French corporate intelligence firm ADIT, headed by Philippe Caduc, is helping the [...]
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Following reports from Nepal's Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) that 67 of the country's nationals died while working in Qatar [...]
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Only founded in late 2020, the Emirati cybersecurity firm AHAD has already forged some keys partnerships. This month it became [...]
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Laurent Dassault, one of the heirs of the Dassault empire, [...]
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Dbapp Security, a cybersecurity firm that works closely with China's [...]
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The French big data startup Sahar has recently hired Erwan [...]
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On entering the House of Lords earlier this month, Evgeny [...]
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The former British chief of defence staff Lord Michael Boyce [...]
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With Iman Dawoud leaving this month to join Kroll, Dan [...]
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Nicholas Watson, the former head of Europe and the Middle [...]
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Corporate intelligence firm IDESUS, which already had heavyweight support from the likes of Yuri Koshkin, can now call on the expertise of Paolo Lezzi, chairman of Italy's cyber-intelligence firm Memento Labs, previously Hacking Team.
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Interior ministry wants to step up its engagement in the fight against disinformation, which could be a boon for several private firms.
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Open source investigation, very popular with NGOs and highly visible on Twitter and other social media in recent years, is now being taken up by the private investigation world.
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The Italian electronic intelligence company IPS has won a contract in European Defence Agency (EDA) maritime surveillance.
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With DarkMatter having already been separated from its cyberoffensive activities, a number of its cyber-security activities have now been taken over by Abu Dhabi's new Digital14.
Cyber-intelligence firms are well aware of the risk of going to court to settle a trade dispute where their most secret operations may be exposed. Rayzone, one of the industry's most established players, has been living through every cyber intelligence firm's worst nightmare over the past few weeks.
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