Take Well Informed Risks

Annie Searle & Associates (ASA) was founded at the end of the 2007-2008 financial services crisis as a risk advisory firm designed to work with companies or agencies that are part of our nation’s critical infrastructure – to identify, then assess and manage unexpected risks, with a special focus on the interplay among four dimensions: people, process, systems, and external events.

Since its inception in 2009 the firm has participated in national work groups around such issues as pandemics, cybersecurity threats, and operational risk.  Through its monthly newsletter, ASA News & Notes, ASA offers research-based commentary, including the publication of research notes that speak to the new world of information ethics and policy, cybersecurity, and operational risk. It presents research findings at national and international conferences and shares its perspectives in webinars and podcasts as well.  

The firm’s ASA Institute for Risk and Innovation is the umbrella for this research, the publications, and conference activity, in particular Annie Searle’s commitment to finding innovative approaches to emerging technologies and rising global threats.  Of special interest are six critical infrastructure sectors in the United States: banking and finance, energy, communications, information technology, public health, and emergency services. The institute is also the publisher of a six-volume set of research notes, titled Reflections on Risk.  A seventh and final volume will be published in the late summer of 2024.

Given the state of the world, ASA is still considering the creation of a monthly podcast series titled What’s At Stake that would premier in late 2024 and feature interviews and discussions on current events as well as issues focused on ethics, governance, technology, and society through a series of conversations with experts.