How Incident Management Software Reduces Response Time and Prevents Business Disruptions
Written by Anneri Fourie | Crises Control Executive A major IT failure shuts down your entire network. A chemical spill forces an urgent evacuation. A cyberattack threatens customer data. In moments like these, every decision matters. But instead of an immediate, coordinated response, teams scramble to track down the right people, confirm the issue, and figure out what to do next. For many businesses,...
Surviving the Storm: The Top 5 Crisis Management Strategies for Businesses
As businesses grow and become more complex, they become vulnerable to various types of crisis events. A Crisis event can occur at any time, anywhere and can be caused by a wide range of factors. Effective crisis management is crucial for businesses to not only prevent a crisis from occurring...
Emergency Management for Your Business: Insights from the PwC Global Crisis Survey on How to Prepare for Crises
Emergency Management: How to Prepare Your Business for Crises In a world of uncertainty, effective emergency management is more important than ever to ensure your business can respond to and recover from crises. The PwC Global Crisis Survey highlights the importance of having a comprehensive emergency management plan in place....
What is Crisis Management and Why are Crisis Management Strategies Important?
A crisis impacting your organisation can occur at any time, and take any form - a natural disaster such as an earthquake or flood, a human disaster for example a war or terrorist attack, or a cyber attack. The extent to which a crisis impacts your organisation depends on how...
2022 New Year’s Resolutions
At Crises control, we believe risk volumes and complexities are at their highest level in 12 years, increased by significant events tied to COVID-19, social unrest, recent elections, extremely low interest rates, and a host of other triggers. Recent realities are revealing a need for real change in how organisations...
Industry recognition for Crises Control Managing Director
Crises Control Managing, Shalen Sehgal, has been recognised in the coveted Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards as Cloud Professional of the Year 2021. The title was awarded by the judges to an individual who has made visible and lasting changes to their business through the medium of cloud. The award...
A Guide to Cyber Security Incident Response Planning
Cyber attacks are one of the most common incidents that any organisation can face. In fact 39% of businesses in the UK reported a cyber security breach or attack in 2020. Every cyber incident no matter how big or small will initiate a cyber security incident response effort aimed at...
Moving Up in the Cloud: Crises Control is Hosted on Microsoft Azure
Crises Control’s entire purpose is to provide reliable, highly available services for our customers at all times. We constantly strive for improvement, not just in our platform itself, but with our suppliers too. We are delighted to announce that we have recently signed an agreement to host all Crises Control...
Crises Control Opens New Cloud-Computing Data Centre Region with Sahara Net
At Crises Control we are constantly looking for ways to improve our service offering to our customers in whatever way we can. Since Crises Control is hosted on the cloud, this involves creating a cloud strategy that works for every customer, no matter where they are in the world. As...
Crises Control Partners Up With Americana Computer Systems in UAE
We are delighted to announce that we now work in partnership with Americana Computer Systems in the United Arab Emirates to work together to provide crisis communications and incident management services to our customers in the United Arab Emirates. A local partnership for excellent services At Crises Control we take...
CM.com selected as Crises Control core supplier
At Crises Control, we promise to provide our customers with high availability services that will be there for them in their highest hours of need. In order to achieve this, we ensure that we only use the best suppliers that we can work with in partnership to provide high quality...
Always Connected. Why High Availability is Important at Crises Control
You are in the middle of an incident, and many of your systems are down. But you are relying on one particular system to help you through the incident - your emergency communications and incident management platform. That’s where it is critical that your emergency communications and incident management platform...
Airport Crisis Management And Excellent Crisis Communications Go Together Like…
… Beach holidays and sunscreen. Or the aviation industry and media scrutiny. You don’t need us to tell you that every incident in an airport, both large and small, attracts public interest in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Where there used to be a “golden hour” to get...
How to write a business continuity plan
Your business is maturing and the time has come to think more strategically about business continuity in the event of an emergency. But the question remains, how to write a business continuity plan? This quick guide will take you through the steps one by one to creating business continuity plans...
How good is your IT contingency plan?
During the recent fire at the OVHcloud data centre in Strasbourg, France, the company told their clients including the French government, the Centre Pompidou, cryptocurrency exchange Deribit, and several cyber criminal groups to activate their IT contingency plans. Their what? Isn’t the point of using a third party cloud provider...
New Year, New Challenges… New Website!
We are really excited to announce our new, relaunched, website which is now faster, fresher, and more informative than ever before. Visit it now to check it out, and learn more about Crises Control. Our goal for our new website is to provide customers and visitors with an easier way...
An Alert You Can’t Ignore: Emergency Alert App Push Notifications
In an emergency you want as many ways as possible to get the message across to everyone you need to alert. The more channels you have, the more likely you are to get hold of them. That’s why most mass notification apps will offer multiple channels including SMS mobile alert...
