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.

There are always lessons to be learnt for resilience from security incidents - no matter how grave.

Crises Control partners Resilience First recently held a breakfast meeting, under Chatham House rules, with industry experts speaking openly and honestly about their own experiences. They underlined a number of verities that stand the test of time: -

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.

No-one can question the bravery of the people who were involved in providing help and succour to the victims of the London Bridge/Borough Market terrorist attack. To the survivors and witnesses of horror beyond imagination we can only extend our thanks and admiration. The police and ambulance service personnel on the front line, were exemplary and stunningly professional.

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 communication for the aviation industry had arrived.

The past few years have seen rapid political, regulatory and technological changes in business environments, and the rate of change is accelerating. To avoid bouncing back to the status quo, businesses increasingly need to have the right leadership and behaviours to adapt to these changes. Resilience First and EY conducted a study of over 50 UK resilience and security professionals across all industry sectors from both organisations’ member networks.

Crises Control, the award-winning mass notification platform designed for business continuity, has teamed up with Resilience First, the leading UK initiative to improve urban resilience for business communities, to launch a series of webinars and podcasts to raise awareness of resilience. The series of webinars and podcasts will be hosted by Crises Control and will feature subject matter experts from within the Resilience First network sharing their learning and expertise.

The terrible terrorist attacks that have taken place on Christian churches and hotels in Sri Lanka this week are a wake-up call to anyone who thought that the military defeat of ISIS on the ground in Syria heralded the end of the global terror threat from that particular organisation. The recent terror attacks on the Muslim community in Christchurch, New Zealand, were another wake-up call to those who thought that only ISIS provided a threat of this nature. The truth is that the threat from terrorist attacks was present in many locations around the globe long before ISIS was created and will continue to exist even when that organisation has faded from memory.

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.