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RANE Insights on COVID-19

Today in our ongoing series about COVID-19, RANE founder David Lawrence catches up with Dr.s Bill Lang and Fred Southwick about the latest vaccine news, ongoing pockets of virus outbreaks and why they are happening and how vaccines work to build immunity. Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents, including pandemics.

Essential Geopolitics: Employment Versus Inflation

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Michael Monderer, Senior analyst for Global Economics about the the Federal Reserve's decision to keep its policy interest rate near zero at least through 2023 and until it achieves desired outcomes for employment and inflation. That’s a strong signal that getting people back to work is more important than inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell made clear, however, that further fiscal stimulus is needed.

RANE helps you contextualize events as they happen and anticipate events on the horizon. We help you understand What. Happens. Next. You can read more of our comprehensive forecasting on the global economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for happens next with a subscription to RANE Worldview. Check out the link attached for more details: https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

Essential Geopolitics: The Geopolitics of a Changing Climate

Exploding permafrost in Russia, weeks of historic fires in the American west, an Atlantic hurricane season with 6 major storms back to back. Persistent Drought. Catastrophic Flooding. Even Violence over increasingly scarce resources. Welcome to the climate in the 21st century. And welcome to a new geopolitical reality. In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Dr. Rebecca Keller RANE's Senior Science and Technology analyst. 

RANE helps organizations contextualize events as they happen and plan for events on the horizon. You can read more of our comprehensive science and technology forecasting and prepare for happens next with a subscription to RANE Worldview. Follow this link to get started: https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe. 

RANE Insights on Security, with Brian Lynch: Insider Threats

This is the first in a new podcast series from RANE Insights, entitled On Security with Brian Lynch. Over the past several years the topic of “insider threats” has been met with varying degrees of concern in the board rooms of most medium to large organizations. While some organizations perceive such risk as minimal in relation to other greater challenges, others allocate significant resources to address these threats without a clear understanding of how and why their trusted employees, contractors, and business associates could undertake an action which could result in serious financial and reputational damages to the firm. Frequently, a significant investment in technology is seen as the silver bullet solution. While enhancing the organization’s ability to monitor and identify potential cases of insider threats, it frequently fails to address the core issues leading insiders to undertake actions which circumvent technological controls, policies, and procedures. As companies have restructured operations to a remote workforce because of the COVID-19 epidemic, these previously unaddressed vulnerabilities are set to grow exponentially.

In this podcast, host Brian Lynch interviews Peter Warmka, Founder of Counterintelligence Institute (www.counterintelligence-institute.com). During his 20+ year overseas career as a Senior Intelligence Officer with the CIA, Peter specialized in breaching the security of targeted entities in fulfillment of foreign intelligence collection requirements. Leveraging his years of direct experience in insider targeting and manipulation, his current mission is to assist clients with security awareness training and consultancy services focused on the development of an effective insider threat mitigation program.

RANE Insights on Security, with Brian Lynch: Insider Threats

This is the first in a new podcast series from RANE Insights, entitled "On Security with Brian Lynch." Over the past several years the topic of “insider threats” has been met with varying degrees of concern in the board rooms of most medium to large organizations. While some organizations perceive such risk as minimal in relation to other greater challenges, others allocate significant resources to address these threats without a clear understanding of how and why their trusted employees, contractors, and business associates could undertake an action which could result in serious financial and reputational damages to the firm. Frequently, a significant investment in technology is seen as the silver bullet solution. While enhancing the organization’s ability to monitor and identify potential cases of insider threats, it frequently fails to address the core issues leading insiders to undertake actions which circumvent technological controls, policies, and procedures. As companies have restructured operations to a remote workforce because of the COVID-19 epidemic, these previously unaddressed vulnerabilities are set to grow exponentially.

In this podcast, host Brian Lynch interviews Peter Warmka, Founder of Counterintelligence Institute (www.counterintelligence-institute.com). During his 20+ year overseas career as a Senior Intelligence Officer with the CIA, Peter specialized in breaching the security of targeted entities in fulfillment of foreign intelligence collection requirements. Leveraging his years of direct experience in insider targeting and manipulation, his current mission is to assist clients with security awareness training and consultancy services focused on the development of an effective insider threat mitigation program.

RANE Insights: Preventing the Downside of Content Sharing

Whether it is through email, cloud storage, CRM, or messaging applications – collaboration is key to any company’s success. In the age of Digital Transformation, there has been a shift in the way enterprises conduct business, relying on various channels and applications for content sharing. Unfortunately, this shift has come with a hefty price – significant exposure to cyber-attacks and breaches, with potential devastating impact on brands, businesses, and their customers. Multiplied by the new remote-work situation due to the world pandemic, and you have malicious actors waiting to find the loophole through which they will execute their attacks.

In this podcast, RANE's Emily Donahue interviews Michael Calev, Director of Strategy and Marketing at Perception Point (https://perception-point.io/), where he focuses on analysis of the cybersecurity industry and market trends. Calev has deep understanding of the content collaboration and email markets and heps businesses prevent and detect cyber attacks.

Essential Geopolitics: Lebanon in Crisis

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, a look at the situation in Lebanon. Anyone who has watched the developments there during 2020 might feel safe in stating that the country is in crisis. RANE's Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne chats with Emily Donahue about why this matters in global geopolitics and what will likely happen in the near future.

Check out RANE's suite of geopolitical solutions here: https://www.ranenetwork.com/solutions/geopolitical-intelligence. 

RANE Insights: Preventing the Downside of Content Sharing

Whether it is through email, cloud storage, CRM, or messaging applications – collaboration is key to any company’s success. In the age of Digital Transformation, there has been a shift in the way enterprises conduct business, relying on various channels and applications for content sharing.  Unfortunately, this shift has come with a hefty price – significant exposure to cyber-attacks and breaches, with potential devastating impact on brands, businesses, and their customers. Multiplied by the new remote-work situation due to the world pandemic, and you have malicious actors waiting to find the loophole through which they will execute their attacks.

In this podcast, RANE's Emily Donahue interviews Michael Calev, Director of Strategy and Marketing at Perception Point (https://perception-point.io/), where he focuses on analysis of the cybersecurity industry and market trends. Calev has deep understanding of the content collaboration and email markets. He has extensive knowledge in research, B2B strategy and implementation of new technologies.