The dynamics in the Middle East continued to shift over the past weekend, and after 13 years of civil war in Syria, the Assad regime collapsed, creating a new situation for the people of Syria, and the Middle East.

In our latest episode of Compass Check: Global Affairs, Jason Pandak, our Vice President of Capital Markets, sits down with our Advisory Board member, retired U.S. Army Colonel Trevor Hough to discuss the evolving, complex situation in Syria, what happens in the near term, and what challenges Syria may face moving forward

In episode two of our podcast series Compass Check: Global Affairs, Jason Pandak, Vice President of Capital Markets at AmeriVet Securities, connects with cybersecurity expert and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Brian Denman. Colonel Denman is a member of our advisory board and he retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2019, after a distinguished 25-year career in communications and cyberspace warfare.

In part one of a three-part discussion, Colonel Denman provides a deep dive on:

• The historic CrowdStrike outage and key takeaways, including incident response and risk management
• The Kaspersky Lab ban, trusted provider risks to national security, and why trusted providers who act in bad faith can create incidents much worse than the CrowdStrike outage

References:

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Executive-Summary_Root-Cause-Analysis_Channel-File-291.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Channel-File-291-Incident-Root-Cause-Analysis-08.06.2024.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/BitLocker-recovery-without-recovery-keys-2.0.pdf

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/tech-analysis-kernel-access-security-architecture/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/07/27/windows-security-best-practices-for-integrating-and-managing-security-tools/

https://www.georgetown.edu/news/ask-a-professor-crowdstrike-outage/#:~:text=Because%20so%20many%20core%20systems,other%20routine%20societal%20systems%20affected.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-crowdstrike-tech-outage-reignited-a-battle-over-the-heart-of-microsoft-systems-72b62c90

In Episode 1, Jason Pandak, Vice President of Capital Markets at AmeriVet Securities and Colonel Hough connect to discuss Iran's political situation following the death of its president, including the upcoming election, the relationship between Iran and other countries and what to watch out for in the next few months.

Colonel Trevor Hough is a U.S. Army veteran and national security policy executive, with deep operational expertise on defense and intelligence technology.

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