Australia, France
RAID draws on Australia's FiveCast OSINT expertise

France, Italy
Italian cyber fails to win over French interior ministry

The French ministry of the interior's rejection of an offer from Italian cyber-interceptions specialist RCS Labs is a further indication of the growing reluctance to rely on foreign technology.

Australia, United Kingdom, United States
CT Group grows its list in US of defence clients

The strategic communications and private investigations firm has signed new lobbying contracts in Washington, DC for companies aiming to position themselves in the US, British and Australian markets.

France
ChapsVision makes push into OSINT market

ChapsVision, headed by entrepreneur Olivier Dellenbach, is aiming to be a player in French open source intelligence through acquisitions and partnerships with specialists in the sector.

France
ISO 27001 certification infuriates would-be Cyber III suppliers

Costly and time-consuming to obtain, the required ISO certification may close the door to a large number of smaller firms that had hoped to be a part of the French interior ministry's Cyber III programme.

France
French interior ministry's grand Cyber III programme invests heavily in open source

The multiple tender call for the third phase of the French interior ministry's grand Cyber III investment programme has finally opted for greater spending on open source intelligence (OSINT).

The Tech Times
FiveCast and Operation Zero

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

Adelaide/London Titmuss and Patterson join OSINT expert FiveCast

Saint Petersburg Russian zero-day Operation Zero comes out of the woodwork

The Tech Times
Thales and PwC, FiveCast, Flashpoint, and US drones think-tank

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.

BrusselsThales and PwC, the European Commission's threat intelligence providers.

Arlington/AdelaideAustralia's FiveCast loses US national security market guru.

New YorkEvan Kohlmann, the second Flashpoint co-founder to jump ship.

ArlingtonFaced with China, Mitchell Institute reinvents itself as a designer of drone policy.

Spotlight | Europe, Israel, United States
How OSINT has worked its way among cyber-intelligence experts

Open-source intelligence (OSINT), considered less touchy than cyber-attacking, is less regulated and easier for goverments to showcase. However, the one-upmanship in the sector is making it increasingly difficult to distinguish between passive and active intelligence.