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Exercise Coordinator & Control Team Responsibilities
Ensuring the simulation exercise is a success requires detailed planning. The Exercise Coordinator has a number of responsibilities that are described in this short video. https://vimeo.com/118879192 The exercise team has a number of specific responsibilities...
4 Essential Crisis Management Tools
1. The Master Events Log The MEL (Master Events Log) is an essential document that can help the crisis team document the incident as soon as it starts to unfold. The MEL is a document that should be filled out by a scribe who usually is in close coordination with the...
Crisis Communications – An Interview with Erik Bernstein
Communicating during crises is important, especially in today’s world of fast-paced social media and mobile communications. Knowing what to say, and how to say it, is probably something that many organizations don’t practice enough. In this episode, we interview Erik...
3 Crisis Scenarios to Consider
Throughout 2016, we have created and delivered multiple crisis simulation exercises. Each scenario was custom created to each organization based on their exercise objectives. Scenarios must be customized to ensure the team being tested is engaged. Without engagement,...
Cyber-Security Leadership – An Interview with Francesca Spidalieri
Leaders need to understand the importance of creating a culture that is cyber-security aware. Corporations need to address their current cyber-defense technology deficiencies to ensure they remain one step ahead of the aggressors. Incident response teams and...
What Is This Thing We Call Resilience?
What is this thing we call resilience? There are various definitions dependent upon the context in question. We tend to talk about ‘organisational resilience’ or ‘personal resilience’ without necessarily understanding the relationship between the two. In the personal...
Common Crisis Management Gaps
When you establish your crisis management capability, conduct crisis management exercises, or actually go through crises, what are the most common issues or gaps that are uncovered? Within this article, I define a few of the more common issues that we see when...
Cyber Security – An Interview with Dan Gortze of SecureWorks
In this episode, we interview Dan Gortze who is security expert and keynote speaker. We discuss the following: Cyber-security challenges Cyber threat actors Insider threats and the Common cyber-security gaps base on real events The importance of incident management...
Does Your Business Have A Cyberbully?
Cybersecurity in general is always a hot topic in terms of Crisis Management. However, cyber bullying in the corporate space isn't always addressed. Â Erik & Jonathan Bernstein of Bernstein Crisis Management wrote a great blog on the subject. Â In their article,...
Community Resilience – An Interview with Mark Gillan
Communities are not just made up of homes and apartments. Many communities have businesses that provide jobs and other services to those communities. Major cities have businesses that are heavily integrated into their communities and so do some smaller cities and even...