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This RANE Network podcast series offers risk intelligence and analysis from industry-leading risk experts. RANE is a risk intelligence company that provides business professionals with access to critical insights, analysis, and support, enabling them to better anticipate, monitor, and respond to emerging risks and threats. In the RANE podcast series, risk management experts and thought leaders share best practices for managing business risk, geopolitical risk, physical and cyber security risks, compliance risk, and other key risks and threats that organizations face today. These podcasts empower businesses, governments, and individuals to confidently navigate an increasingly complex international environment. At RANE, we believe shared risks require shared solutions and invite you to listen in.
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Feb 5, 2021 • 54min
RANE Insights: SolarWinds is the Hack that Keeps on Taking
In this podcast, RANE Founder David Lawrence speaks with Robert Knake, a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who also served as director for cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council. They talk about new revelations about the SolarWinds breach, lessons learned and processes that must change to ensure digital information is protected.
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Feb 5, 2021 • 28min
RANE Insights on COVID-19: Is Herd Immunity Possible by Summer?
There’s a lot to talk about in this week’s episode of the RANE Insights on COVID-19 podcast, from the availability of vaccines, to staying safe (that means no big gatherings on Super Bowl Sunday) through the Spring. RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Drs. Fred Southwick and Bill Lang. Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents, including pandemics. Dr Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine.
Individuals and organizations turn to RANE, for risk intelligence that cuts through the hype to focus on what they need to know, what to expect, and what to do. Sign up for our coronavirus solution to get get critical insights on COVID-19 delivered daily. Visit us at ranenetwork.com.
Feb 5, 2021 • 54min
RANE Insights: SolarWinds is the Hack that Keeps on Taking
In this podcast, RANE Founder David Lawrence speaks with Robert Knake, a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, who also served as director for cybersecurity policy at the National Security Council. They talk about new revelations about the SolarWinds breach, lessons learned and processes that must change to ensure digital information is protected.
RANE is a risk intelligence company that provides access to critical insights, analysis, and support to ensure business continuity and resiliency for our members.
Become a member of the largest community of risk professionals today!
Feb 4, 2021 • 7min
Essential Geopolitics: Why the World is Watching Myanmar
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks to Evan Rees, Stratfor’s Asia Pacific analyst. On Feb. 1, Myanmar’s military, announced that the commander-in-chief of the defense services would take on all executive, judicial and legislative powers. State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and other officials were taken into custody. The country was virtually cut off. The US has called this a military coup. Rees explains what caused the Myanmar military to take control of the government and what happens next.
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Feb 2, 2021 • 5min
Essential Geopolitics: What’s Working with Israel’s Vaccine Program
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Ryan Bohl, a Middle East and North Africa analyst for RANE.
As more countries begin vaccinating against COVID-19, there have been some remarkable developments. New variants impacting vaccine effectiveness, EU shortages, US coordination struggles, and whole nations that have received no vaccines at all. As RANE forecasts in its annual report, there will be months of challenges ahead. One country we are watching? Israel.
Feb 1, 2021 • 32min
Essential Geopolitics: U.S.-Iran Scenarios Under Biden
In this podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks to RANE's Senior Global analyst, Matthew Bey and Senior Middle East and North Africa analyst, Emily Hawthorne. The topic: the relationship between the U.S. and Iran. The relationship between the two countries grew more complicated during the Trump administration. The US withdrew from the JCPOA. Iran became more aggressive in the gulf. And not long ago, Iran passed a bill expanding its nuclear program - a tactical move to push the US into lifting crippling sanctions. Bey and Hawthorne break down different scenarios that might have to happen for the two to come to terms on Iran's nuclear program.
Jan 29, 2021 • 32min
RANE Insights on COVID-19: New Virus Variants and New Vaccines
There’s a lot to talk about in this week’s episode of the RANE Insights on COVID 19 podcast, from new variants of the virus to new vaccines in the pipeline. RANE founder David Lawrence speaks with Drs. Fred Southwick and Bill Lang.
Dr. Bill Lang is an expert in public health responses to biological incidents, including pandemics. Dr. Fred Southwick is an infectious disease specialist at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Individuals and organizations turn to RANE, for risk intelligence that cuts through the hype to focus on what they need to know, what to expect, and what to do. You can sign up fr our coronavirus solution to get receive critical information on the coronavirus delivered daily to your inbox. Visit us at ranenetwork.com.
Jan 28, 2021 • 7min
Essential Geopolitics: The US and Vietnam During the Biden Administration
In this episode of the the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue gets an update on Vietnam/US relations from Evan Rees, RANE's Asia Pacific analyst. The US Presidential transition is complete. New domestic policies are being rolled out while US foreign policy is being rejiggered. Many nations around the world are actively working to adapt to the Biden Administration foreign policy priorities. One such country? Vietnam. Up for discussion? How will U.S.-Vietnamese relations evolve under the Biden administration and how Vietnam's domestic political transition will likely impact the country's behavior going forward.
Jan 26, 2021 • 9min
Essential Geopolitics: The End of Germany’s Merkel Era
In this episode of the Essential Geoplitics podcast from RANE, Emily Donahue speaks with Adriano Bosoni, RANE's Senior European analyst about German politics. This as one of the longest serving political figures of recent decades announced she will step down in 2021. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, has served since 2005, through multiple presidential and prime ministerial terms worldwide. Now, Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union, has appointed a new party leader. What does this mean for German politics? Listen.
Jan 22, 2021 • 19min
Essential Geopolitics: Georgia’s Role in NATO and the EU
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, the conversation turns to the country of Georgia. Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili visited Brussels recently, meeting with European and NATO officials to discuss progress on Georgia's inclusion in both organizations.
Georgia sits at a crossroads, both physically and metaphorically, at the pivot point between three historic empires - Russia, Iran and Turkey. It is increasingly drawing attention from the more distant Europe, the United States and China as it pursues a quest to become an integrated member of Europe, something that Russia has long sought to resist. RANE's Senior VP of Strategic Analysis, Rodger Baker, spoke with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili during her visit to Brussels.
