Dec 20, 2017 | Crisis Communications, Crisis Management, Podcast
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSS2017 has seen some historic storms in North America and South Asia. There’s been a significant increase in cyber-attacks on major businesses such as Equifax and Uber. In the UK the NHS...
Dec 6, 2017 | Crisis Management
Mark Hoffman, who we interviewed this past summer for the PreparedEx Podcast, wrote a great article for the International Crisis Management Conference (ICMC), “Ransomware as a Crisis”. In his article, Mark discusses the importance of cyber security in...
Nov 15, 2017 | Crisis Management, Exercises, Tabletop Exercises
These Seven Tips Will Help You Create Impactful and Memorable Crisis Simulation Tabletop Exercises 1. Ensure your tabletop exercise gets off to a good start by doing this…. Ensure you invite the right audience. This may seem obvious, but I have seen tabletop exercises...
Nov 8, 2017 | Emergency Management, Podcast, Security, Tabletop Exercises
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | RSS58 people died and over 500 were injured during a music festival in Las Vegas on October 1st, 2017. A lone actor shot at festival goers from the Mandalay Bay Hotel room, a scenario...
Oct 31, 2017 | Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Exercises, Tabletop Exercises
Let me begin by stating my position very clearly: I do not write scenario-based business continuity plans. I don’t think that it’s appropriate to base your continuity protocols on a series of unfortunate events so specific that your strategy is obsolete if the...
