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DGSE worried about malware capacities after takeover of Risk & Co

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Intellexa targeted by US sanctions, French interior ministry contracts, Franco-Brazilian military communications cooperation, Chris Jones joins Nightwing

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.

LimassolJenovice, indirect victim of US ire over Intellexa

ParisMinistry of Interior puts out call for tenders for telephone data contract

ParisSyracuse-Siscomis agreement with Brazil being updated

WashingtonFormer CIA officer Chris Jones to head Nightwing's technology division

France
Former DGSE intelligence officer joins ex-Avisa Partners' cyber unit

Frédéric Polycarpe has left Eviden to join Matthieu Creux's Forward Global, previously known as Avisa Partners.

France
French Comcyber provider Sahar secures new funding

French mass data analysis company Sahar is set to welcome a new minority shareholder shortly.

France
ChapsVision integrates recently acquired Systran at breakneck speed

The takeover of machine translation specialist Systran by the data fusion company ChapsVision has sent shock waves through the French technical intelligence community.

France
French armament agency to boost drone anti-jamming capacities

The French government's defence procurement directorate is aware the French armed forces' drone capacity is lagging behind and has asked local developer Skydrone Robotics to provide a demonstrator.

France
French legal interceptions platform plagued by blind spots

Despite the efforts that were made to get it up and running, France's legal interceptions platform, or PNIJ, still has major glitches to sort out, a Senate report has revealed.

France
ChapsVision poised to win DGSI call for tender

France's domestic intelligence agency, the DGSI, is about to announce the winners of the call for tender for its mass data analysis platform, OTDH.

France
Comcyber puts out feelers ahead of online influence consultation

France's Cyber Command is under orders to step up its online influence capabilities and has started talking to potential suppliers.

France
Risk & Co takeover: Amarante and SSF compete for security and cyber courted in asset by asset sale

Bids submitted to a French court show that Risk & Co, which is in receivership, will be sold off piece by piece. But future agreements between buyers in cyber, engineering and security, should not be ruled out.

Europe
ChapsVision and Cy4gate continue to consolidate Europe's cyber intelligence sector

By buying up smaller companies, ChapsVision and Cy4gate are each looking to build up a dominant position in the European cyber intelligence business.

France
ChapsVision wins first phase in building French intelligence service's future Big Data platform

The wait is over to find out more about the French General Directorate for Internal Security's Big Data platform project, aimed at replacing Palantir's Gotham Platform. Three firms have been retained so far.