THE TOP BUSINESS RISKS FOR 2019.

• Author: Tuttle, Hilary
• Position: FINDINGS - Brief article

In its new Risk Map 2019, Control Risks predicted the year's top business risks. The first was that the U.S.-China trade rift will have an increasing political and economic impact for a broader swath of entities. Second, the firm noted, "For China, data is something to be controlled; for the EU, data is something to be protected; the United States sees data as something to be commercialized." These drastically different approaches will make collecting, storing and transferring data within and among these regions more challenging, especially amid inconsistent enforcement and increasing cyber security threats. Third, American...