ORCs, flash mobs and retail crime; India-Canada relations and other things keeping us up at night

More large retailers are shutting down locations because of an uptick in crime. Factal's Cory Bergman talks about the trend, the data and the various solutions available.Kieran O'Leary from Emergent Risk International speaks about previous U.S. government shutdowns, India-Canada tensions, Israel-Saudi Arabia relations, Nagarno-Karabakh and the South China sea.Some of the sources we used in today's episode;ERI's Intelligence Analysis and AI courseFactal Forecast entry on India-Canada relationsAllied Universal's World Security ReportNational Retail Federation report on organized retail crimeWalgreens executive says shoplifting threat was overstatedSince 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.