The Covid-19 pandemic raises a number of very significant issues for business continuity and even business survival. These issues include employee availability, supply chain disruption and social distancing. As companies return to full operations, they will have to adapt to a new normal with significantly changed business operating models.

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) is the Business Continuity Institute's annual global campaign to raise awareness of the resilience profession and demonstrate the value of effective business continuity management to organizations of all types and sizes.

Crises Control is delighted to announce that we have been shortlisted twice in the BCI European Awards 2020, in the categories of Continuity & Resilience Provider and Continuity & Resilience Innovation.

Operational resilience requirements for companies in financial services are about to get a lot tougher and firms need to start planning now how they are going to meet them. In December 2019, the three top UK financial regulators, the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority published a joint consultation paper on new requirements to strengthen operational resilience in the financial services sector.

The purse strings have been well and truly opened at Crises Control as the company has announced a major expansion in the Gulf, delivering services from a new data center region in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (the KSA).

Crises Control has been shortlisted in the CIR Business Continuity Awards of Excellence for the fourth year in a row. The Business Continuity Awards are the definitive mark of excellence in the sector, celebrating the past year's greatest successes in business continuity, security and resilience.

With the novel Coronavirus COVID19 now present in more than 35 countries and more than 80,000 infections reported, the World Health Organisation is believed to be on the verge of declaring a global pandemic. The impact on the world economy is already significant, with global supply chains from China massively disrupted, and the impact on business will continue to grow for some time whatever the trajectory of the outbreak from here on.

Way back in digital pre-history, say around 2004, before the explosion of web 2.0 and social media, the telephone call tree had its place. It was a clever way of getting a message out by telephone to a group of people using the power of the group, with each contact in the call tree calling 1 or 2 others to pass the message along. That way 1 could become 2 then 4, 8, 16, 32 and so on.

Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution is delighted to announce that it has won the title of Most Innovative Mass Notification & Security Platform in the Corporate Excellence Awards 2020 sponsored by Corporate Vision magazine.

All businesses must navigate a rapidly changing risk environment characterised by globalisation, disruptive technologies, increasing supply chains, climate change and an accelerating rate of change in markets and society.All businesses must navigate a rapidly changing risk environment characterised by globalisation, disruptive technologies, increasing supply chains, climate change and an accelerating rate of change in markets and society.

Crises Control has featured once more in the latest Continuity Insurance & Risk Magazine Emergency & Mass Notification Software Report for 2020, a market leading analysis of the top 11 global suppliers of EMNS software, including FACT24, Everbridge, Onsolve and AtHoc.

Crises Control has been shortlisted, for the first time, in the DRI International Awards of Excellence in the category of Product/Service of the Year 2020. The Awards recognise the leaders and innovators in the fields of continuity management, technology recovery and crisis and risk management.

The critical cyber event currently affecting Travelex could yet be an existential one for the company. Their operations have now been 'out of commission' as it were for more than ten days and still show no sign of being resolved. They appear to have got themselves in a stand-off with the ransomware gang holding them hostage, with the pressure on them to resolve the situation increasing every day, which surely plays directly into the hands of the hackers.

In the latest in our Meet the Crisis Experts series of video blogs we interview Dr Katja Samuel, Director of Global Security and Disaster Management Ltd, who is an international lawyer specialising in security, disaster and risk management.In the latest in our Meet the Crisis Experts series of video blogs we interview Dr Katja Samuel, Director of Global Security and Disaster Management Ltd, who is an international lawyer specialising in security, disaster and risk management.

In the latest in our Meet the Crisis Experts video series, we talk to George Foster, a risk and resilience advisor to public and private sector, with a proven track record spanning, nuclear security, national contingency planning, the protection of critical human and crisis responses.In the latest in our Meet the Crisis Experts video series, we talk to George Foster, a risk and resilience advisor to public and private sector, with a proven track record spanning, nuclear security, national contingency planning, the protection of critical human and crisis responses.

Crises Control is delighted to be exhibiting at the BCI World Conference on 5th and 6th November 2019 @ Novotel London West Hotel. Crises Control is delighted to be exhibiting at the BCI World Conference on 5th and 6th November 2019 @ Novotel London West Hotel.

It has been a challenging year so far. Here we are in Mid-October and the autumn rains have turned into floods. A local academy secondary school, built at the bottom of the hill, had a torrent running through it and was consequently closed. As were some of the roads.

On 17 April 2018, a passenger on Southwest Airlines flight 1380 from New York to Dallas became the first person to live-stream commentary and video of an unfolding aviation crisis from inside the aircraft itself, using the airline's on-board wi-fi service. By doing so, passenger Marty Martinez announced that the era of "Always On" crisis communications for the aviation industry had arrived.