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How the Crisis Management Team Supports Emergency Response Activities
Every business faces some type of crisis at one point or another. It could be a natural disaster, a data breach, an accident with injuries - these are all examples of events that can cause significant damage to your company's reputation and bottom line. When these...
3 Advantages of Planning for Crises
Every company should plan for crises, and it's never too early to start. Planning ahead is the best way to reduce financial and reputational impacts of a crisis on your organization. Here are three advantages of planning for crises: 1) better understanding what...
There Are Many Challenges When a Cyber-Breach Occurs – Here Are Three Key Challenges That Require Preparation
Decision-making is a major challenge for incident management teams. The time and effort that goes into decision-making usually leads to delays in response, which can lead to increased costs and legal liability. One way of tackling this problem is having a cyber...
Crisis Exercise Simulations Strengthen Relationships and Confidence
All organizations have a responsibility to plan and prepare for crises, but few know how to do it effectively. Crisis simulations are an excellent training tool that can be used to develop relationships among team members, employees and other stakeholders. It also...
How COVID Changed Crisis Communications and Media Relations
. When a crisis of any kind hits, the goal has always been the same: put it into the past as quickly as possible. You establish your organization as the most authoritative source of credible information about the crisis and you own its narrative by living the mantra...
Are You Still Preparing for Other Threats During COVID?
In episode 86 of the podcast, Rob interviewed Tobias Watson of Constant Associates. The discussion was circled around simulation exercises and the importance of not letting your guard down due to the ongoing pandemic situation....
How to Prevent Groupthink in Crisis Communications
Guest contributor: Jo Detavernier, SCMP, APR – Owner of Detavernier Strategic Communication When crisis communications teams work perfectly together, they will achieve great results. When such alignment takes on the form of “groupthink” however, the results will often...
PreparedEx Partners with OnSolve to Provide Simulated Crisis Exercises that Optimize Organizational Crisis Preparedness
PreparedEx’s skilled crises experts and ultra-realistic simulated crisis scenarios, coupled with OnSolve’s AI-powered OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management help organizations take crisis preparedness plans to the next level July 26, 2021 -...
Responding to Cyber-Incidents – There’s No “I” in Team
In episode 85 of the podcast, Rob interviewed Mark Hoffman MBCI, CBCP Award winning Continuity and Crisis Management Consultant about the state of cyber-response within organizations. We spoke about what functions should make up the crisis management team and the...
The Missing Ingredient in Too Many Cyber Response Plans
By: Mark Hoffman, MBCI, CBCP Recently, a client asked me to review a Cybersecurity Response Plan template that they had purchased from a ‘leading’ research organization. This 21-page document was intended to be used by my client’s IT department in response to a...