Not Just for the Big Guys: Why Mass Notification Software Is a Game-Changer for SMEs
Written by Anneri Fourie | Crises Control Executive Most small and medium-sized businesses assume that mass notification software is something only big corporations need. That it’s expensive, complex, and designed for teams with entire departments dedicated to crisis management. But here’s the truth: the smaller your team and the tighter your margins, the more vital it is to communicate clearly and act quickly when...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
