Former CSIS Director Joins US Security Firm Strider Technologies

Published on August 7, 2024

Canada’s former spy agency director David Vigneault is making a jump into the private sector, joining U.S. security firm Strider Technologies. Vigneault’s move to the strategic intelligence company comes amid global concerns about intensifying espionage threats from countries such as China and Russia, the company said in an Aug. 7 press release. “Our adversaries do not discriminate between companies, governments, or universities in their efforts to steal advanced technologies in pursuit of their strategic objectives,” Vigneault said in the release. “Strider is meeting that threat head-on with a transformative strategic intelligence platform that enables industry, government, and academia to proactively identify and mitigate nation-state risk. I am excited to join this innovative team that is advancing the state-of-the-art in global intelligence.”...

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