Israel, United States
Active retirement for former Unit 8200 chief Nadav Zafrir

France
James Tamblin leaves BlueVoyant to fly solo again with Ecognito

Two years after his cyber consultancy Marclay Associates was bought by BlueVoyant, the ex-British intelligence officer James Tamblin has once again branched out on his own with Ecognito.

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
BlueVoyant in unfair dismissal spat, two ex-Met chiefs team up, GEOS lands Dushanbe contract

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 Delaware, London and Brussels.

Dover, Delaware Cyberfirm BlueVoyant sued by former CCO

London Hogan-Howe teams up with ex-Met man at Intelligent Sanctuary

Brussels GEOS and Red Line land strategic EU contract in Tajikistan

The Corporate Intelligence Village Voice
ADIT, Hockley, the UNDP, new Jordanian-British firm

Appointments, financial results, new contracts: each week, we report on events both great and small that matter in the global corporate intelligence community. This week, we report from London, New York and Paris.

LondonEmail leak hunter Jake Hockley sets up new company.

United StatesUNDP sets up counter-terrorism and money laundering investigations division.

LondonNew Jordanian-British corporate intelligence company.

FranceADIT holds on to Nouvelle Aquitaine intelligence contract.

Israel, Singapore
Singapore's Temasek shakes up management at Sygnia

Four years after acquiring Sygnia, founded by Israeli Unit 8200 intelligence veterans, the Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek has put its stamp on management at the cyber company.

United States
Momentum, cyber merchant bank backing NightDragon

Dave DeWalt, the former FireEye and McAfee CEO whom Barack [...]

Oman, United States
L3 in fight with well-connected local defence partner Dahra

Oman's Dahra recently started legal proceedings in the US against its former partner.

Israel
Paragon, Barak's new cyber baby

Ex-prime minister Ehud Barak has teamed with some former intelligence heavywights and an experienced hacker to launch Paragon Solutions, supporting its cyber-offensive portfolio.

United States
Prescient poaches cyber talent from BlueVoyant/K2

The US intelligence services company Prescient has recently hired Matteo [...]

Israel
Eli Ben-Meir, state cyber-security strategist for hire

Eli Ben-Meir, a military intelligence veteran who now heads the startup Cygov, is looking to sell Israeli-style cyber-defence tools to less experienced governments.

Singapore
Lee Fook Sun oversees cybersecurity as Ensign's chairman

Lee Fook Sun, the former head of Singapore's military intelligence service, the Joint Intelligence Directorate (JID), was appointed chairman of [...]

Israel
Zohar Rozenberg, a Unit 8200 veteran, on the hunt for the best cyber startups

Former high ranking Israeli military intelligence official Zohar Rozenberg is in charge of Elron's cyber investments.

Israel
Pini Meidan, star Israeli interceptions technology broker

A legend in the Israeli intelligence services, Pini Meidan today uses his contacts to help countries acquire the latest cyber and SIGINT technologies.

United Kingdom
BlueVoyant, Hannigan adapt to market

BlueVoyant, the former BlueTeamGlobal, which hired Robert Hannigan, the former [...]

United Kingdom, United States
Keith Alexander, André Pienaar strengthen alliance

IronNet Cybersecurity, the firm founded by former NSA chief Keith Alexander (IOL 790), has drawn investment from everyone who is [...]

France, Israel
ISE opens French doors for Israeli cybersecurity firms

The French firm is spearheading the commercial offensive launched by the Israeli cyber sector in France.

France, Israel
Ex-Unit 8200 chief touts Israeli Cyber know-how

Nadav Zafrir, the former head of Unit 8200, Israel's answer [...]

Israel
Extracting data from closely-protected SCADA and ICS critical networks

A piece of malware can transform a Siemens industrial controller into a radio that transmits sensitive data from critical infrastructure.

United States
Silber leaves FTI in New York to launch own firm

Mitchell Silber, the former head of the geopolitical intelligence department of FTI Consulting in New York, has launched his own [...]

United Kingdom
Ex-GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan becomes super-consultant

Robert Hannigan, who stepped down as head of Britain's interception agency GCHQ in January, has taken on a number of [...]

United Kingdom
Charles Carr to leave K2 Intelligence

Charles Carr is poised to step down as the head [...]

United Kingdom
Post-Quantum learns from K2

Tom Glocer, the former chief executive of Thomson Reuters and [...]

Spotlight | France, Iran
Mahan Air hides A-310 in Paris

To get round U.S. sanctions the Iranian company Mahan Air rents its fleet of seven Airbus A-310 long haul aircraft from front companies. Some of these dummy companies are incorporated in France, where Airbus is headquartered, while others are located [.