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🚨 Our full report on the Top 10 Geopolitical Risks for Businesses in 2025 is now available. 🌍 This report provides crucial insights to help businesses navigate an increasingly complex world. 📊 🔑 Key Takeaways: Corporations are no longer solely economic entities. They are now prominent geopolitical actors influencing and are being influenced by global political dynamics. The return of great power politics, including U.S.-China decoupling, is driving the rise of trade barriers, technology balkanization, and currency risks. This is forcing corporations to reassess their supply chains and navigate increasingly fragmented markets. Additionally, political and social instability across the Global South, along with the global rise in nationalism and polarization within domestic markets, poses significant challenges. These dynamics threaten operational continuity, heighten security concerns, and create reputational risks for companies as they grapple with aligning their values amid increasingly polarized consumer bases and governments. To thrive, corporations must become adept at anticipating and mitigating a wide range of risks. This requires a proactive and strategic approach to geopolitical risk management, which includes closely monitoring global events, understanding the interconnectedness of risks, and embedding these considerations into strategic planning. ✅ Download the full report now! 👇

🌍 The Second in Our Series: Geopolitics for Leaders Geopolitics for the CEO Businesses are now geopolitical actors and CEO decisions play a critical role in how organizations navigate global challenges. From managing complex reputational risks to steering global supply chains, the CEO’s leadership is essential to ensuring a company thrives in an interconnected, uncertain world. 👇 Explore why strategic foresight is crucial for today’s CEOs and 🔗 discover more in our latest blog post

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🚀 The latest edition of PESTLE & MORTAR is now on our website! 🔎 In this edition: Corporations Further Move from DEI Russia Threatens European Critical Infrastructure U.S. Sanctions Chinese Corporation Over Cyberattack Canadian PM Trudeau to Resign Austria Far-Right Party Allowed to Form Government Global Oil Exports Decline in 2024 Houthis Undeterred by U.S. Strategy Washington State Sues T-Mobile Over Cyberattack 📖 Read it here https://lnkd.in/exzj3Wjv ✉️ Want early access? Sign up to receive it a day before everyone else directly in your inbox. https://lnkd.in/e6gH4CSW

🌍 Introducing Our New Series: Geopolitics for Leaders Geopolitical risks — from regulatory shifts to cyber threats — are becoming some of the most pressing challenges for businesses today. These are not distant concerns but immediate issues demanding strategic focus at the highest levels of leadership. For Chief Legal Officers (CLOs), managing these risks is a critical strategic function - see below 👇 and check out the full report here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dcTfp7Qg

At Insight Forward, we’re conducting a survey to understand how businesses linked to national critical infrastructure approach physical and cybersecurity collaboration.   In partnership with the Sam Houston State University Institute for Homeland Security, our research aims to understand if there are advantages of integrating physical and cyber security measures within corporate environments.   If you are responsible for security in an organization linked to protecting national critical infrastructure, we would greatly value your participation.   📊 Take the survey here: https://lnkd.in/dPP7Gpxb   Your insights are invaluable in shaping this research, and we greatly appreciate your time and contribution.

Happy New Year to everyone! I am proud to state that the latest issue of The Close Protection and Security Journal (International Protective Security Board) is now out! This journal is dedicated to research in the private security space, and have some amazing essays in this issue. In addition, we've added book reviews (including a book by Dr. Newbery of the editorial board)! See below for the list of articles and authors (I'll be highlighting one a week for the next few months)! If you're interested in submitting articles for the next edition, please see the call for submissions on the IPSB website or at the end of the journal. Thank you to the amazing editorial board for shepherding the issue through! Charles Randolph Chuck Tobin Fred Burton Rachael Frost Dr Samantha Newbery FSyI Articles - Creating a Discipline: Theory Building and Research Methods for Private Security Studies (by myself!) - Navigating Complexity: A Structured Approach to Travel Risk Management (Nathan Ackerman from Riley Risk Inc.) - Impact of an Incident: Risk to Executives (Chuck Tobin from AT-RISK International, Inc.) - Synopsis of the IPSB’s Risk Intelligence and Protection Symposium, London, 10 October 2024 (edited by Dr Samantha Newbery FSyI) - T-ray Imaging: Emerging Technologies to Combat Increasingly Dangerous Threats Concealed in Mail and Everyday Items (Alexander Sappok from RaySecur Inc.) - Enhancing Last Mile Security: A Guide for Executive Protection Companies Partnering with Secure Global Ground Transportation Services (Simon Chen and Scott Jones from Eight Black)   Book Reviews The Use of Informants on Terrorism in a “Quagmire”. A Review of: Samantha Newbery, Terrorist Informers in Northern Ireland, Oxford University Press (David Page) Book Review – Beyond States and Spies: The Security Intelligence Services of the Private Sector by Lewis Sage-Passant, Edinburgh University Press (Ross Hill from Insight Forward). https://lnkd.in/e5FtJeAA

📑 Our Chief Geopolitical Officer, Treston Wheat, PhD, has published an article in Military Review exploring the Democratization of Irregular Warfare. 👉 The Russo-Ukrainian War has seen the “democratization of irregular warfare,” meaning that regular citizens are once again taking on a militia-like attitude when it comes to participation in conflict. This is seen especially when it comes to emerging technology like drones and hybrid actions like cyberattacks. This paper explores those concepts by focusing on the case study of the war in Ukraine and what the implications are for nation-states, corporations, and individuals are going forward in the wars of tomorrow. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/g8cgdrbi

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