In this episode of RANE Insights, Founder of RANE David Lawrence sits down with three leaders in cybersecurity and reputation management, Rahul Mukhi, Kelly Kimberly and Kellyn Wagner Ramsdell to break down what to do in the event an organization is involved in a ransomware attack.

Rahul Mukhi is a Partner at Cleary Gottlieb specializing in investigations, enforcement and regulatory matters as well as complex commercial litigation. Rahul joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2005. From 2010 - 2016, Rahul worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. He was a lead prosecutor on significant cases involving public corruption, cybercrime, financial and tax fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, and international organized crime. During his tenure, Rahul successfully conducted 10 jury trials and was responsible for some of the office’s most high-profile matters. He has been Recognized for Cyber Law and named a Next Generation Lawyer: M&A Litigation Defense by The Legal 500 U.S. and was granted the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Kelly Kimberly, Partner and Head of Houston for FGS Global, advises clients on reputation management, financial communications including M&A, shareholder activism and restructurings. She specializes in crisis and issues management, including responding to and preparing for cyber-incidents, as a senior member of the cyber team at FGS Global. She has advised clients across multiple industries involved in high profile crisis and litigation matters including multiple cybersecurity and data privacy issues; supporting legal counsel on issues such as employee misconduct, wrongful termination, business disputes and class action lawsuits; restructurings and bankruptcies; EPA enforcement matters; injuries and fatalities and resulting agency investigations. Earlier in her career, Kelly founded Kimberly Public Affairs, and served in several leadership roles at Enron.

Kellyn Wagner Ramsdell is the Associated Director of Threat Intelligence at Arete, responsible for enabling the delivery of high quality, clear, concise, and correct intelligence products that enable decision advantage. Her team performs attribution and sanctions assessment on more than 500 ransomware and extortion events each year, specializing in advising a specific threat actor’s expected impact in a victim environment. Kellyn has wide-reaching investigative and intelligence analysis experience in incident response, law enforcement, and the US intelligence community. She is an expert in tracking and disrupting cyber adversary infrastructure and operations. Prior to Arete, Kellyn specialized in developing new quantitative analysis methods for defensive and offensive cyber mission sets. She oversaw staff supporting the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, MITRE ATTACK, MITRE D3FEND, and MITRE Engage programs.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, Founder of RANE David Lawrence sits down with three leaders in cybersecurity and reputation management, Rahul Mukhi, Kelly Kimberly and Kellyn Wagner Ramsdell to break down what to do in the event an organization is involved in a ransomware attack.

Rahul Mukhi is a Partner at Cleary Gottlieb specializing in investigations, enforcement and regulatory matters as well as complex commercial litigation. Rahul joined Cleary Gottlieb in 2005. From 2010 - 2016, Rahul worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. He was a lead prosecutor on significant cases involving public corruption, cybercrime, financial and tax fraud, health care fraud, money laundering, and international organized crime. During his tenure, Rahul successfully conducted 10 jury trials and was responsible for some of the office’s most high-profile matters. He has been Recognized for Cyber Law and named a Next Generation Lawyer: M&A Litigation Defense by The Legal 500 U.S. and was granted the Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Kelly Kimberly, Partner and Head of Houston for FGS Global, advises clients on reputation management, financial communications including M&A, shareholder activism and restructurings. She specializes in crisis and issues management, including responding to and preparing for cyber-incidents, as a senior member of the cyber team at FGS Global. She has advised clients across multiple industries involved in high profile crisis and litigation matters including multiple cybersecurity and data privacy issues; supporting legal counsel on issues such as employee misconduct, wrongful termination, business disputes and class action lawsuits; restructurings and bankruptcies; EPA enforcement matters; injuries and fatalities and resulting agency investigations. Earlier in her career, Kelly founded Kimberly Public Affairs, and served in several leadership roles at Enron.

Kellyn Wagner Ramsdell is the Associated Director of Threat Intelligence at Arete, responsible for enabling the delivery of high quality, clear, concise, and correct intelligence products that enable decision advantage. Her team performs attribution and sanctions assessment on more than 500 ransomware and extortion events each year, specializing in advising a specific threat actor’s expected impact in a victim environment. Kellyn has wide-reaching investigative and intelligence analysis experience in incident response, law enforcement, and the US intelligence community. She is an expert in tracking and disrupting cyber adversary infrastructure and operations. Prior to Arete, Kellyn specialized in developing new quantitative analysis methods for defensive and offensive cyber mission sets. She oversaw staff supporting the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, MITRE ATTACK, MITRE D3FEND, and MITRE Engage programs.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Richard Haass for a conversation about his expertise as president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Richard Haass, a veteran diplomat and respected scholar of international relations, is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations after having served as CFR’s president for twenty years. He is also senior counselor with Centerview Partners, an international investment banking advisory firm.

You can read his full biography here: https://www.cfr.org/expert/richard-haass

For more insights from Dr. Haass, visit: https://richardhaass.substack.com/

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Mark Gold for a continuation of their multi-part discussion on the relationship between addiction and enterprise risk.

Dr. Gold is an author, inventor, and mentor who has had over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications since beginning his academic career at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine in the 1970s. He is best known for developing the pioneering translational laboratory to human research methods of discovery for addiction and psychiatry.

He recently published the following article in Psychology Today on applying tactics from anti-smoking campaigns to address recreational opioid use: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/addiction-outlook/202503/what-we-can-learn-from-celebrity-addictions

Find more content from Dr. Gold here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/mark-s-gold-md

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Jim Nadler, President, CEO, and Co-Founder of Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) to discuss private credit markets.

You can read more about Jim Nadler and his work here:

https://www.kbra.com/company/overview

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Richard Daynard to discuss best practices when adopting new technologies and navigating associated regulations. 

Richard has dedicated much of his professional life to the forefront of an international movement to establish legal responsibility of the tobacco industry for tobacco induced death, disease, and disability. He is president of Northeastern University’s School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, chairs its Tobacco Products Liability Project and helped initiate the university’s new Center for Public Health Litigation. He teaches in the areas of public health law, strategic litigation and interdisciplinary studies, and has lectured about legal issues in the control of tobacco and obesity in 54 countries as well as chaired 25 national and international conferences on these subjects.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of Essential Geopolitics, RANE’s Global Security Analyst Hellen Muzungu provides insight into the current political crisis in South Sudan.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, RANE Founder David Lawrence sits down with Dr. Mark Gold for a continuation of their multi-part discussion on the relationship between addiction and enterprise risk.

Dr. Gold is an author, inventor, and mentor who has had over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications since beginning his academic career at the University of Florida College of Medicine and Yale University School of Medicine in the 1970s. He is best known for developing the pioneering translational laboratory to human research methods of discovery for addiction and psychiatry

Find more content from Dr. Gold here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/mark-s-gold-md

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

In this episode of RANE Insights, Founder of RANE David Lawrence sits down for a conversation with Margaret Wallace to discuss the field of air traffic control and the potential implications of labor shortages within this profession.

Margaret Wallace teaches air traffic control and airport management at the Florida Institute of Technology. She received her Ed.S, Curriculum and Instruction Fall 2015 from Liberty University, a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix, a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration from University of Maryland and an Associate of Airway Science from the Community College of the Air Force. Prior to teaching at Florida Tech, she was Department Chair (2 years) and Assistant Professor (10 years) at Hampton University in Hampton, VA. She spent over 15 years in the industry prior to teaching as an Airport Manager (4 years) at Ramstein Air Base in Germany and an Air Traffic Controller (10+ years) in the U.S. Air Force.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.

RANE’s Europe Analyst Matteo Ilardo and RANE’s Director of Analysis Adriano Bosoni break down the economic and security ramifications for European countries and companies with interests in the region.

RANE is a global risk intelligence company that delivers risk and security professionals access to critical insights, analysis and support to ensure business continuity and resilience for our clients. For more information about RANE's risk management solutions, visit www.ranenetwork.com.