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AI Can’t Read the Room: Why Human Facilitators Are Still the Most Powerful Tool in Crisis Preparedness
By an exercise facilitator who has run hundreds of simulations, watched leadership teams under pressure, and learned one essential truth: when people are stressed, technology steps aside and the human…
Responding to a Cyberattack: This is NOT Just an IT Issue!
Recently I posted the following statement on LinkedIn: For years, companies have treated cybersecurity as a risk that IT could solve alone. Beyond IT, companies need to add the crisis management component to define their response. Understand key decisions, communications and reputation management requirements. #CyberSecurity #CrisisManagement I am a senior…
The Exercise Control Team
In the 17th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the Exercise Control Team, which is the group responsible for creating, delivering and evaluating the exercise.
The Weak Link: Economic Espionage and the Business Traveler
According to statistics published by the FBI, at least twenty-three foreign governments actively target U.S. corporations for their proprietary trade information. And the threat is not just from state intelligence units. Increasingly, private companies conduct the greatest percentage of corporate espionage. Such firms would sooner skip the lengthy…
Scenario Generation Ideas
In the 16th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses a few ideas to help generate your scenario.
Corporate Wargames – Lessons 1 & 2
PreparedEx has thousands of hours of preparedness experience in continuity planning, running drills, functional exercises, tabletop exercises, and corporate wargames. The methods we employ have their genesis in the age-old military wargames. Our techniques are far less expensive, and much more quickly applied, than actually building and testing…
Exercise Objectives
In this 15th episode of the Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the importance of exercise objectives.