

RANE Podcast Series
RANE Network
This podcast series offers risk intelligence and analysis from RANE Network. 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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Sep 9, 2020 • 24min
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.

Sep 8, 2020 • 7min
Essential Geopolitics: China’s Navy
In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, host Emily Donahue speaks with Rodger Baker, Senior Vice President for Strategic Analysis at RANE. The subject: the Department of Defense annual report to Congress on developments regarding the Chinese military and the rapid growth of the Chinese Navy, which now has more ships than the United States Navy, and how China’s naval buildup reshape dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region. Rodger Baker’s must-read columns on China’s geopolitical rise and what happens next can be found at RANE Worldview: https://worldview.stratfor.com/.

Sep 4, 2020 • 30min
Pen and Sword: Collateral and the Tier One Thriller Series
In this episode of the Pen and Sword podcast from RANE, host Emily Donahue speaks with Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson, the authors behind the phenomenally successful Tier One thriller series featuring Navy SEAL John Dempsey. In a wide-ranging conversation, the authors discuss their writing process, how they incorporate global geopolitics into their storylines and what comes next for both themselves and their protagonist. The Tier One series is a #1 Amazon Best Selling series with 6 volumes. Collateral is the sixth.

Sep 4, 2020 • 18min
RANE Insights: Best Practices for Resuming Business Travel
As nations adapt different approaches to reopening their economies. While there is a lot of great information out there about restarting travel, it’s also getting increasingly more difficult to sift through what’s relevant and decipher what it really means for travelers today, tomorrow, and in the future.
In this podcast, RANE's Emily Donahue and On Call International’s VP of Global Assistance Services, Ryan DeStefano, team up to answer some of the most frequently asked questions on restarting travel and adjusting duty of care to the new normal. DeStefano, who specializes in travel security, crisis response, and risk management strategy, will draw on his deep-rooted knowledge of today’s evolving risk landscape to guide you in creating an effective travel restart methodology that makes sense for you and your organization. On Call International offers fully-customized travel risk management (TRM) solutions and that help protect millions of travelers, their families, and their organizations. In addition to On Call’s world-class global assistance services, the firm offers a full line of global consulting services including TRM assessments, business continuity/emergency action planning, and Travel Restart-specific tools, resources, and location monitoring.

Sep 3, 2020 • 6min
Essential Geopolitics: Japan After Shinzo Abe
In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE's guide to major developments, the conversation is about what happens to Japan now that its longest serving Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe has resigned. Emily Donahue speaks with Evan Rees, RANE's Asia Pacific Analyst.
Individuals and organizations turn to RANE, for risk intelligence that cuts through the noise to focus on what they need to know, what to expect, and what to do. Become a RANE Worldview subscriber today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.

Sep 2, 2020 • 36min
RANE Insights: COVID-19 Effects on Healthcare and Children
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put a massive strain on our healthcare system. Despite overcoming the early shortages of PPE and scarce resources such as ventilators, hospitals and healthcare providers continue to reassess daily the potentially lasting implications for how healthcare is delivered and managed in this country.
In this episode if the RANE Insights podcast, RANE's Emily Donahue speaks with with Dr. Daniel Engelman, who recently became a member of the RANE Network. HE shares his perspective on these implications and what they mean for hospitals, doctors, patients, and our children.

Sep 1, 2020 • 5min
Essential Geopolitics: What’s Next after UAE Israel Agreement?
In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, from RANE (Risk Assistance Network + Exchange) the discussion is about what happens now that the United Arab Emirates and Israel have signed an agreement to normalize relations. Emily Donahue hears from Ryan Bohl, RANE's Middle East and North Africa analyst about what this deal means for Emirati-Israeli relations and for other countries that don't yet recognize Israel. Subscribers to RANE Worldview get access to RANE's 25-year repository of content on Russia, the European Union and the confluence of global geopolitics. Subscribe today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.

Sep 1, 2020 • 36min
RANE Insights: COVID-19 Effects on Healthcare and Children
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to put a massive strain on our healthcare system. Despite overcoming the early shortages of PPE and scarce resources such as ventilators, hospitals and healthcare providers continue to reassess daily the potentially lasting implications for how healthcare is delivered and managed in this country.
In this episode of the RANE Insights podcast, RANE's Emily Donahue speaks with with Dr. Daniel Engelman, who recently became a member of the RANE Network. He shares his perspective on these implications and what they mean for hospitals, doctors, patients, and our children.

Aug 31, 2020 • 8min
Essential Geopolitics: Navalny, Russia, and the EU
In this special edition of the Essential Geopolitics podcast from RANE, the conversation is about the alleged poisoning of a Russian dissident and it implications for relations between the European Union and Russia. Leading today’s conversation are Adriano Bosoni, RANE's Senior European analyst and Sim Tack, Senior Global analyst. Subscribers to RANE Worldview get access to RANE's 25-year library of content on Russia, the European Union and the confluence of global geopolitics. Subscribe today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.

Aug 27, 2020 • 8min
Essential Geopolitics: Belarus on the Edge
In this episode of RANE's Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue speaks with Sim Tack. Tack is Senior Global analyst for RANE. What is happening Belarus…And what will happen next? Those are the questions the world is asking after President Lukashenko’s election victory set off weeks of angry protests. Questions covered in this podcast include protestors' future, Lukashenko's future and whether Russia or the West will influence the outcome. You can stay abreast of what will happen next in Belarus and Sim Tack’s forecasting for the entire Eurasia region, with a subscription to RANE Worldview. Check out our offerings today at https://www.ranenetwork.com/worldview-subscribe.


