Managing Director of Crises Control, Shalen Sehgal, interviews John Deverell, CBE a former British Army senior officer who specialises in advising companies and governments on governance, risk and crisis management.

This briefing and exercise, kindly hosted by the American International Church, was designed to help attendees think about their own resilience as part of the local area, and what support their own organisation might need or could be able to give. Around 25 people attended.

Crises always put a company under intense scrutiny, whether from internal stakeholders such as employees and investors or external stakeholders such as suppliers, customers, regulators and the media. This last group, the media, might have the least invested in the company themselves, but they can still wield an enormous power to damage the reputation of a company long term and perhaps even drive it into bankruptcy.

Crises Control Managing Director, Shalen Sehgal, has written an article for the March 2019 issue of leading publication Housing Technology Magazine on how the social housing sector is at significant and growing risk of disruptive incidents that can impact on housing providers and their tenants.

Russell has been involved in the Business Continuity, Security & Risk Management Sectors for 20 years. He worked on the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and is an international advisor on standards, including for ISO, ASIS and the BSI. He is the Chairman of the BSI Risk Management Committee.Russell has been involved in the Business Continuity, Security & Risk Management Sectors for 20 years. He worked on the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and is an international advisor on standards, including for ISO, ASIS and the BSI. He is the Chairman of the BSI Risk Management Committee.

The NHS has apparently been told by health ministers to stop using pagers for emergency communications by 2021, in order to save money. The NHS is possibly the biggest remaining buyer of this archaic technology in the world, with 130,000 pagers still in use, which is astonishingly 10% of the entire global usage.

In this second episode of our new video blog series, the Managing Director of Crises Control, Shalen Sehgal, interviews former Deputy Mayor of London and Chair of the 7/7 Review Committee, Richard Barnes, about the responsibility of public and private bodies for building community resilience.

If you don’t work in the blue light services, you will probably never have heard of the Joint Emergency Services Interoperability Programme (JESIP).The guidance has been developed by police, fire and ambulance service colleagues in the UK following several public enquirieswhich said joint working between the three emergency services would enhance the collectiveability to save lives and reduce harm.

Research carried out by Crises Control and the Continuity Forum has revealed that while almost all SMEs agree business continuity planning is a vital protection for their business a majority are not in fact ready to effectively handle a business disruption incident.

The history of mass communication stretches from prehistoric forms of art and writing, through basic printing technology from around 800AD; the invention of Gutenberg’s printing press in 1455; the first weekly printed newspaper in Antwerp in 1605; the invention of radio by Marconi in 1895; television by John Logie Baird in 1925; and finally, to the internet (the World Wide Web) by Tim Berners Lee in 1990.

Every business needs to communicate reliably and effectively to be successful and understand who has received the message and who has not. Each communication may have a wide range of different audiences. Core audiences will include employees, suppliers, customers and investors. Further audiences may include regulators, residents, students and site visitors, amongst others.

In this first episode of our new video blog series, the Managing Director of Crises Control, Shalen Sehgal, interviews crisis management expert John Deverall about the benefits of having a business continuity plan in place.

What has gone unnoticed in the recent story about the disgraceful burning of a Grenfell Tower effigy on a bonfire in South East London is that this event was almost certainly never intended to be made public. One of the people involved filmed the event on their smartphone and then posted it to what was very likely meant to be a private WhatsApp group. Someone in the private group then forwarded the video onto at least one other person outside of the group and any control over distribution was lost from that point onwards. The video went viral and the fury of the country descended upon them. No sympathy from me on this point. The massive outpouring of public anger that led to their subsequent arrest by the police, was the least that they deserved.

Crises Control, the award-winning mass notification platform designed for business continuity, has teamed up with the Continuity Forum, the leading business continuity advice and research organisation in the UK, to research the SME market.

I am delighted to announce that Crises Control, the mass notification, multi-channel, business continuity platform and crisis response solution, has been awarded the title of Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year in the Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards 2018.

Facebook has been hit this week with another massive data breach which has rocked both its share price and its reputation. The hack saw sophisticated attackers combine three bugs in Facebook's profile, privacy and video uploading features to steal the access tokens of 50 million users. These access tokens could allow the attackers to take over user accounts and act as them on Facebook, Instagram, Oculus and other sites that rely on Facebook's login system.

"Optimism bias (also known as unrealistic or comparative optimism) is a cognitive bias that causes a person to believe that they are at a lesser risk of experiencing a negative event compared to others."

I am delighted to announce that Crises Control, the mass notification, multi-channel, business continuity platform and crisis response solution, has been shortlisted for Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year in the Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards 2018.