A powerful tool to automate information retrieval Maltego is a software developed by the American company Paterva. It performs automatic search (called “transformations” in the language of Maltego) and creates a graphical representation of the information obtained. Concretely, the tool finds all information related to a pseudonym, an email or an IP address and establishes connections between them. In the context of due diligence, Maltego is thus very interesting. Let’s take the example of an investigation into a physical person ..

This interpretative framework allows the acquisition of a complete view of the relations of each actor in all the fields: political, societal and competitive. In an objective of protection of interests or to conquer new audiences and markets, it draws the actions and interactions between actors and enables to anticipate their reactions and behaviors. Taught by Augustin Roch, Studies Department Manager of the company, in the major ‘Strategy and competitive intelligence’ at the School of Economic Warfare, this class on ..

In his book Christian Harbulot (Spin Partners and School of Economic Warfare director) highlight how the spread of false or misleading information has become a widespread phenomenon. With the information society and Web technologies, actor games are disturbed and do not correspond to the commonly widespread Manichean vision. The “good”, “usually presented as representatives of civil society in the fight against injustice and mismanagement of economic and political world“, are sometimes hoax manufacturers. The “bad guys“, represented as “the powerful ..

Lobbying in 2016 : diversity of approaches Online consultation, open data, citizen expertise… the way political decisions are taken are evolving. Those changes are received with pragmatism by Member of Parliament, as Arnaud Leroy (Social MP and sponsor of 2015 edition of the Lobbying competition): we have to “collaborate, coprepare and codecide” with different stakeholders. Thus, information sharing and the meeting of different points of view became essential to generate synthesis welcomed by as many people as possible. In this ..

Romain Goldschmidt, Influence Department Manager, and Augustin Roch, Studies Department Manager, are some of the authors, writing two case studies (summary below): United States and Google: coopetition of powers, by Romain Goldschmidt. Digital technologies draw a new geography of power, transcending traditional boundaries of Nations. The power, once related to the domination of the seas, is now determined by cyberspace control. But Europe appears very vulnerable in this new context. Indeed, Edward Snowden’s revelations confirm to the world the extraordinary ..