10 Must-Ask Questions Before Choosing a Mass Notification System
Written by Anneri Fourie | Crises Control Executive Imagine a fire breaking out in your office building, a cyberattack shutting down your IT systems, or a severe weather event approaching your location. How quickly could you alert your employees? Would your message reach them in time? During a crisis, seconds matter. A mass notification system is essential for getting critical information to the right...
Knowledge is important but information is critical in a crisis
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...
Airline operators given 15 minutes to issue critical incident communications
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...
Is your company crisis communications ready?
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...
Housing Technology: Mitigating Business Disruption Events
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. The article reviews the threat...
The evolution of mass communication
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...
Managing effective routine business communications
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...
Face up to your data protection duties before you are hit with a fine
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...
Crises Control nominated for Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year 2018
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. The Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year Award is for solutions...
Crises Control v5.2 launches with new features and GDPR compliant security enhancements
As Product Development Manager for Crises Control, I am very pleased to announce the successful launch of Version 5.2 of our platform. We pride ourselves on Crises Control being an award-winning, leading-edge, critical incident management tool. We have not won that reputation by standing still in the area of product...
Communications that fits your purpose
Have you ever asked yourself, what communications channels does your company use and are they truly fit for purpose? Your number one communications channel is probably e-mail. This is a fantastic tool when it is working well, but what would happen if your power was down or your IT network...
Best practice #6 – Practice makes perfect
In the previous blogs in this series on best practice in BC planning, I looked at identifying and mitigating the risks to your corporate environment, scenario planning, creating incident plans, supply chain resilience and crises communications that are fit for purpose. The next step in your BC planning should be...
Building business and community resilience together
Helping companies and communities to build resilience into their operations and networks is the mission that Crises Control was created to achieve. So when we were introduced to business transformation consultants, Alchemmy, and their Application for Resilient Communities (ARC) platform, we realised that we had found some kindred spirits. London is home...
Crises Control and ThreatSpike win Cyber Security Partnership of the Year 2017
I am delighted to announce that leading business disruption incident management tool, Crises Control, and cutting edge behavioural monitoring tool, ThreatSpike, have jointly won the category of Cyber Security Partnership of the Year in the prestigious CIR Risk Management Awards 2017. Crises Control and ThreatSpike win Cyber Security Partnership of the Year...
Crises Control exhibiting at Air Cargo Handling Conference 2017
Crises Control, the business continuity platform and quality assurance tool, is exhibiting at the Air Cargo Handling Conference 2017, to be held at the Corinthia Hotel, Budapest from 19-21 September. The airline industry is subject to a wide range of predictable events that have the potential to disrupt its smooth operations,...
Crises Control and ThreatSpike are finalists in Risk Management Awards 2017
I am delighted to announce that leading business disruption incident management tool, Crises Control, and cutting edge behavioural monitoring tool, ThreatSpike, have been jointly shortlisted for the prestigious CIR Risk Management Awards 2017, in the Cyber Security Product/Partnership of the Year. Crises Control and ThreatSpike recently joined forces to provide an...
BCI research confirms that social engineering is a top cause of cyber incidents
Research commissioned by Crises Control from the BCI for their annual cyber resilience report 2016 confirms much of what we already suspected about the changing nature of the cyber threat and the way that cyber criminals have found new ways past corporate perimeter security. 66% of respondents to the survey reported that...
