Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition: Hazard and event risks: - The Supreme Court of Thailand has convicted former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawattra for negligence in a rice subsidy program; she has been sentenced in absentia to five years in prison. - The Brazilian Army has deployed 950 soldiers in Rio de Janeiro’s Rocinho favela (slum) to counter growing violence there. - According to reports issued by Chilean authorities, at least two Catholic and two Evangelical churches were allegedly torched by a group of Mapuche indigenous people in the southern region of Araucania on September 20, 2017. - Per media reports, increased weather changes pose a threat of zika, dengue, and chikungunya viruses spreading further in sub-Saharan Africa. Technology and information risks: - Singapore has been ranked the highest in launching global cyber-attacks according to a study released las