Continuity Insights has announced that award-winning event producer Frank Supovitz – the Super Bowl, the NFL Draft, the NHL’s Stanley Cup Finals and All-Star Weekend, and Radio City Music Hall productions to name a few – will be the opening keynote for the 2020 Continuity Insights Management Conference, scheduled for
Crisis Communication
There’s a Reason You Need an Updated Emergency Communications Plan
Survival. Your business survival. Your employees’ health and welfare. Your customers. Your emergency communications plan is essential to your survival and should be an essential part of your business continuity plan. This recent article, which appeared on Forbes.com, outlines the reasons why an emergency communications plan is critical to the survival
10 Things All Emergency Evacuation Plans Should Do (Part 2)
By OnSolve: After covering the acknowledgement of individuals, the establishment of roles, making provisions, prioritizing fire safety planning, and safeguarding IT and cyber security in part one of 10 Things All Emergency Evacuation Plans Should Do, the focus this week turns to documentation, employee training, reviews and updates, post-disaster planning,
What Is Onsite Social Engineering and Are You Vulnerable?
Social engineering is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves manipulating people into breaking normal security procedures and best practices in order to gain access to systems, networks or physical locations, or for financial gain. Threat actors use social engineering techniques to conceal their true identities
Annual Crisis Event Impact Report Now Available
BC Management has announced that its 8th Edition Crisis Event Impact Report is now available for download for the BC/DR community. The report highlights which events trigger the highest concerns, how prepared are organizations, how have events impacted the business operations, employees and downtime, what have been the financial impacts
Executing Crisis: A C-Suite Crisis Leadership Survival Guide
Today’s executive needs to be prepared to take quick action to annihilate crises before they happen. Executing Crisis: A C-Suite Crisis Leadership Survival Guide, a new book by Dr. Jo Robertson, a leading expert in heading off and containing crises, is made for business leaders who wants to learn how
Program Announced for Continuity Insights’ 2020 Management Conference
Continuity Insights has announced the full conference program, including speakers, sessions, plenaries, and panel discussions for the 2020 Continuity Insights Management Conference, taking place April 20-22, at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort, San Antonio, Texas. The preliminary schedule kicks off on Saturday and Sunday, April 18-19 with a selection of
Witt O’Brien’s Women’s Resilience Forum a Success
This fall, hands-on workshops, thought-provoking presentations, and fire-side chats drew dozens of top female leaders in corporate resilience, business continuity, risk management, crisis management, corporate security, and cyber security to Witt O’Brien’s first Women’s Resilience Forum. Measured in terms of the immense positive feedback the firm has already received from its
10 Things All Emergency Evacuation Plans Should Do (Part 1)
By OnSolve: The initial moments surrounding an emergency event are crucial. After all, if your facility is deemed unsafe, would you rather spend your limited time trying to figure out how to react when the clock is ticking down, or would you rather immediately commence with a predetermined evacuation plan? While this
