From Bank Robberies to Fraud Alerts: How Mass Notification Software Enhances Security in Financial Institutions
Written by Anneri Fourie | Crises Control Executive Security threats in financial institutions are evolving rapidly. While traditional risks like bank robberies still exist, digital threats, such as cyber fraud, phishing attacks, and unauthorised transactions, are growing at an alarming rate. According to a 2023 report by IBM, the average cost of a data breach in the financial sector reached £4.5 million per incident,...
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...
Sounding the Alarm: Towards a Public Warning System and EECC Article 110
When a critical event happens, every public authority from governments to emergency first responders has a responsibility to ensure that the public are kept informed and safe as events unfold and in the immediate aftermath. This responsibility has been made particularly explicit by the EECC Article 110 requirements that every...
Hello, Can You Hear Me? Keeping the Lines of Communication Open in a Crisis
One of the key components of a crisis is keeping the lines of communication open for employees, partners, authorities, and even the public. But it’s how you do it that is important. How do you keep clear lines of communication? Who talks to whom? What are the messages going out,...
Why Using WhatsApp for Emergency Communications is a Bad Idea
Every organisation, no matter their size, should have a plan for communicating with their employees in an emergency. While many organisations use WhatsApp for their everyday communications, there are many reasons why using WhatsApp for emergency communications isn’t going to work. We get why organisations use WhatsApp. It’s free, familiar,...
Crises Control named in Gartner Market Guide for emergency mass notification solutions
LONDON, Tuesday 1st December 2020: Crises Control, the mass notification and incident management platform, has been named as a key vendor in the latest Gartner Market Guide for Emergency Mass Notification Solutions, released on 25 November. This is the first time that Crises Control has appeared in a Garter Market Guide, which this year...
You need more than insurance when disaster strikes
The High Court has just handed down its long-awaited judgment in the Covid-19 business interruption insurance test case brought by the Financial Conduct Authority. This follows the rejection by insurance companies of many claims by businesses that had applied for pay-outs under their BI policy clauses for losses suffered during the 105...
Crises Control named as one of 20 most innovative companies of 2020
Crises Control, the global mass notification, multi-channel, communications platform and crisis response solution has been named by GSL Magazine as one of the 20 most innovative companies of 2020. This is just the latest in a series of award wins for Crises Control since it was launched in 2016, including being named by...
Public Sector, G-Cloud 12 digital marketplace announced
G-Cloud 12 allows all UK public sector organisations to save time and cost in their procurement process by relying on the pre-qualifications and terms of use agreed under the framework. Learn more. Shalen Sehgal, Managing Director of Crises Control, said: "I am delighted that Crises Control has been listed on the G-Cloud 12 framework,...
