Crisis Preparedness: Lessons from a Kidnapping

Feb 21, 2017 | Security

On October 25, 2011, a young American humanitarian aid worker, Jessica Buchanan, was in Somalia teaching children how to avoid landmines when she and her colleague were kidnapped for ransom by Somali bandits. They were held in the desert at gunpoint for 93 days before...

4 Essential Crisis Management Tools

Dec 21, 2016 | Crisis Management, Emergency Management, Exercises, Security

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...

Common Crisis Management Gaps

Nov 7, 2016 | Business Continuity, Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Emergency Management

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

Oct 25, 2016 | Business Continuity, Exercises, Podcast, Security, Tabletop Exercises

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSSIn 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...

Wild-Land Interface Fires – Planning, Community Relationships and Response Capability

Sep 27, 2016 | Crisis Management, Emergency Management

As the fall out is being assessed from this year’s major wildland fires on the U.S. west coast and in the Canadian context, the most costly disaster in Canadian history “the Fort McMurray Fire” risk assessors and public policy analysts are re-considering our planning...