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.

Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution had a great night at the Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards 2019 last night.

Relying on free tools for your critical communications is a risky business and is very likely to compromise, security, administration and the ability to contact your employees when you need to most.

The National Grid outage that took place in early August, in which power was cut to more than one million people, has been described as a rare and unusual event with two different generators both failing at almost exactly the same time during a major lightning storm. It is still not clear whether the two failures, in remote locations, were linked or just co-incidental.

I despair!

At the end of August, I was just finishing lunch with a colleague in the first-floor restaurant of a five star hotel in central London when a "bell" started to ring. It was ignored by practically everyone - including the waiting staff and everyone else.

Crises that threaten the reputation and operations of an organization are becoming an everyday occurrence. As the business environment becomes more complex, resilience continues to climb the agenda of every C-suite.

Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution has scored a hat trick of nominations in the Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards 2019.

Today, Crises Control is taking a major step forward to help support the resilience of our customers in the Middle East region by offering the next generation of intelligent business resilience applications and tools from our first cloud data center region located in Muscat, Oman.

Crises Control, the mass notification, multi-channel, business continuity platform and crisis response solution has just been listed on the latest UK government Digital Marketplace through the G-Cloud 11 framework, making it available to all UK public sector organisations. This means that UK public sector organisations can save time and cost on their procurement process by relying on the terms of use agreed under the framework.