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CPX to merge with Injazat in latest UAE cyber transformation

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Emirati cyber specialist BeamTrail boosts position in military sector

The Emirati cyber sector is continuing its transformation. Under the supervision of EDGE Group, which brings together all Emirati defence tools, the parastatal cyber company BeamTrail is also reorganising its military activities.

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Abu Dhabi hopes to push Dubai out of its secure communications with Katim

Abu Dhabi secure communications provider Katim is trying to take over from Dubai's provider, Nedaa, and work its way up the UAE security and technology ladder, as competition between the two emirates grows in every field.

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Russell and Rucker to Dataflow Security, Kyiv deploys Vega on frontline, Dror Michman's exit, Faisal al-Bannai's PR push

From SIGINT to GEOINT and OSINT, with a dose of cyber, each week we report on events both big and small that matter in the community of technical intelligence providers.

Gloucester/WashingtonDataflow hires big wigs to tap into US and UK intelligence markets

KyivVega deploys drone imagery software to frontline

LondonDror Michman bids goodbye to Voyager Labs

Washington/Abu DhabiFaisal al-Bannai's CNN charm offensive

UAE
Abu Dhabi's CPX-Core42 merger plans have cyber providers worried

National security adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan's continued efforts to rationalise spending on the country's sovereign cyber industry is making some providers anxious.

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Ali Al Mannaei, from Darkmatter cyber business developer to security provider

The architect of Abu Dhabi's sovereign cyber sector, Ali Al Mannaei, continues to keep a low profile while doing business. Still very much involved in Emirati defence networks, he is now consolidating all his security operations within his Al Hamra Group.

Russia, UAE
UAE cyber-offensive firm Beacon Red's Russian hackers disillusioned

Less that six months after their arrival in the emirates, some of the Russian cyber engineers hired by the UAE's part public cyber-offensive company Beacon Red are unhappy about pay and are looking to leave.

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Digital14 poised for takeover by Edge Group

With his takeover of the country's security sector complete, the UAE's National Security Adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan is about to make Digital14, owned by ADQ, a part of Edge Group's Electronic Warfare & Cyber Technologies cluster.

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Emirati cyber offensive business to be switched from Digital14 to CPX

In the latest development in the power struggle taking place in the Al Nahyan clan, cyber security company Digital14 is about to be reorganised. In line with a now well-established routine, it will be succeeded by a new Emirati cyber offensive avatar.