This edition of the Global Security Briefing starts with Factal examining Trump's war on Latin America's drug cartels. Irene Villora, Factal's LATAM editorial lead, discusses the Trump administration's alleged order to use military force, Mexico's response, the expansion of surveillance, and potential implications.

Cameron Evers, Deputy Director of Intelligence and Analysis at Emergent Risk International, presents on the National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C. In addition, Emergent Risk International's Cameron Tisshaw, Madison Honsinger, and Karla Schiaffino take an early look at the World Cup across Mexico, Canada, and the United States.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

This edition of the Global Security Briefing starts with Factal looking at Europe's fire season. Dave Clark goes over the nations with the most fires, urban areas threatened so far, and what the near-term prognosis is after more than twice the forested area burned in 2025 compared to the 20-year average.

Kieran O'Leary, Director of Intelligence and Analysis at Emergent Risk International, presents on what to pay attention to in the still bubbling Thailand-Cambodia border dispute, including some of the history behind the border. He then shifts the corporate targeted shooting in New York City with some numbers behind expanding corporate security concerns.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

This week's Global Security Briefing covered the recent violence in Sweida, Syria hosted by Factal editor Agnese Boffano.

Then Emergent Risk International analyst Hannah Poppy presented on the removal of U.S. sanctions on Syria, plus the remaining economic concerns in the nation.

Vassilis Benopoulos from ERI finished the briefing with an updated on the Ukraine-Russia conflict's expanding use of drone attacks.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

Together Factal and Emergent Risk International bring you up to Thursday morning's news on the conflict then they tell you what editors are watching for and what businesses should pay attention.

Then ERI talks about the protests and political violence in the United States.

Our next Briefing is July 17.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

First up Factal NORAM lead Joe talks about what went wrong with Hurricane Helene last year, this year's hurricane season forecast and the challenge of staffing shortages in NOAA and FEMA.

Then Emergent Risk International Director of Analysis Kieran brings us up to speed on Ukraine's drone strike, Russia's asymmetric warfare and the chance for peace.

Finally, ERI Senior Analyst Neil covers the change in South Korea's government and what that will mean for businesses.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

Hi all! Usually Producer Dave writes these episode descriptions, but he's on vacation and I (Tyler) am recapping this - apologies that there's not the professional intro music, I don't know what drawer Dave keeps it in.

This was a heater; Sachin Singh joins past midnight India time to answer lots of questions on India-Pakistan's big escalation. Kieran O'Leary adds commentary and teaches us about the Australian tradition of democracy sausages. Cory Bergman explains how supply chains and tariffs were pretty confounding before -- and now they're really a mess.

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Emergent Risk International and Factal tell you the foundations, the current events and what to watch for around them moving forward in this edition of the Global Security Briefing.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays (though we're on break til June!) the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

April 2025 is busy. Tornado season started early. There's conflict brewing in South Asia. France has new terror attacks. Geopolitics happens in real-time. Tren de Aragua is getting more attention in the US than ever.

Emergent Risk International and Factal tell you the foundations, the current events and what to watch for around them moving forward in this edition of the Global Security Briefing.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.

Live from India ERI analyst Dev brings us up-to-date on the changes in the waqf law and potential for disruptive protests.

Kieran then presents on the potential security impact for US companies in the new tariff regime.

Finally Cory demonstrated how the "human eye can no longer tell" when it comes to photos and video created using generative AI -- and what practitioners need to do about it.

Since the earliest days of COVID, Factal and Emergent Risk International have held an essential hour-long briefing for global security and resilience professionals.

Held every two weeks on Thursdays the Global Security Briefing is now the industry's largest virtual event of its kind.