December 9, 2024
The Life-Saving Potential of Emergency Communication Systems in Modern Crisis Management
Written by Anneri Fourie | Marketing ExecutiveEmergencies rarely give notice. They arrive abruptly—sometimes with devastating consequences for those unprepared. Businesses face countless potential threats, from fires and floods to IT failures and cyberattacks. The ability to act quickly and communicate effectively is critical in such moments, as it can mean the difference between protecting lives and enduring chaos.For many organisations, traditional communication methods fall...
May 15, 2023
The Need for a Holistic Risk Management Plan: Ensuring Business Resilience
In today's rapidly changing business landscape, the need for effective risk management has become paramount. Organisations face numerous risks that can significantly impact their operations, reputation, and bottom line. To navigate these challenges successfully, businesses require a holistic risk management plan that encompasses all aspects of potential threats and vulnerabilities....
May 12, 2023
What are Emergency Response Systems and How Can They Benefit Your Organisation?
In today's fast-paced business world, organisations need to be prepared for any eventuality, especially in case of an emergency. An emergency response system (ERA) is an essential tool for organisations of all sizes, helping them respond quickly and effectively to any unforeseen events. In this blog post, we will explore...
May 11, 2023
Most CEOs are Unprepared for Physical Threats to Their Businesses – Learn How Crises Control Can Help with Incident Management
As the world becomes more interconnected, businesses are facing increasing physical threats that can cause significant damage to their operations. According to a recent report by Business and Learning Resources, most CEOs are unprepared for such threats, which can include natural disasters, cyber attacks, and even terrorism. This is a...
May 10, 2023
Cybersecurity Risks and Crisis Management: How to Protect Your Business
In today's digital age, cyber attacks are a constant threat to businesses of all sizes. From data breaches to ransomware attacks, without a crisis management plan the consequences of cybercrime can be devastating, leading to reputational damage, lost revenue, and legal and regulatory consequences. That's why it's more important than...
May 10, 2023
Surviving the Storm: The Top 5 Crisis Management Strategies for Businesses
As businesses grow and become more complex, they become vulnerable to various types of crisis events. A Crisis event can occur at any time, anywhere and can be caused by a wide range of factors. Effective crisis management is crucial for businesses to not only prevent a crisis from occurring...
May 4, 2023
Emergency Management for Your Business: Insights from the PwC Global Crisis Survey on How to Prepare for Crises
Emergency Management: How to Prepare Your Business for Crises In a world of uncertainty, effective emergency management is more important than ever to ensure your business can respond to and recover from crises. The PwC Global Crisis Survey highlights the importance of having a comprehensive emergency management plan in place....
September 14, 2022
What is Crisis Management and Why are Crisis Management Strategies Important?
A crisis impacting your organisation can occur at any time, and take any form - a natural disaster such as an earthquake or flood, a human disaster for example a war or terrorist attack, or a cyber attack. The extent to which a crisis impacts your organisation depends on how...
December 23, 2021
2022 New Year’s Resolutions
At Crises control, we believe risk volumes and complexities are at their highest level in 12 years, increased by significant events tied to COVID-19, social unrest, recent elections, extremely low interest rates, and a host of other triggers. Recent realities are revealing a need for real change in how organisations...
September 24, 2021
Industry recognition for Crises Control Managing Director
Crises Control Managing, Shalen Sehgal, has been recognised in the coveted Computing Magazine Cloud Excellence Awards as Cloud Professional of the Year 2021. The title was awarded by the judges to an individual who has made visible and lasting changes to their business through the medium of cloud. The award...
July 26, 2021
A Guide to Cyber Security Incident Response Planning
Cyber attacks are one of the most common incidents that any organisation can face. In fact 39% of businesses in the UK reported a cyber security breach or attack in 2020. Every cyber incident no matter how big or small will initiate a cyber security incident response effort aimed at...
June 30, 2021
Moving Up in the Cloud: Crises Control is Hosted on Microsoft Azure
Crises Control’s entire purpose is to provide reliable, highly available services for our customers at all times. We constantly strive for improvement, not just in our platform itself, but with our suppliers too. We are delighted to announce that we have recently signed an agreement to host all Crises Control...
June 29, 2021
Crises Control Opens New Cloud-Computing Data Centre Region with Sahara Net
At Crises Control we are constantly looking for ways to improve our service offering to our customers in whatever way we can. Since Crises Control is hosted on the cloud, this involves creating a cloud strategy that works for every customer, no matter where they are in the world. As...
June 29, 2021
Crises Control Partners Up With Americana Computer Systems in UAE
We are delighted to announce that we now work in partnership with Americana Computer Systems in the United Arab Emirates to work together to provide crisis communications and incident management services to our customers in the United Arab Emirates. A local partnership for excellent services At Crises Control we take...
June 4, 2021
CM.com selected as Crises Control core supplier
At Crises Control, we promise to provide our customers with high availability services that will be there for them in their highest hours of need. In order to achieve this, we ensure that we only use the best suppliers that we can work with in partnership to provide high quality...
May 28, 2021
Always Connected. Why High Availability is Important at Crises Control
You are in the middle of an incident, and many of your systems are down. But you are relying on one particular system to help you through the incident - your emergency communications and incident management platform. That’s where it is critical that your emergency communications and incident management platform...
May 14, 2021
Airport Crisis Management And Excellent Crisis Communications Go Together Like…
… Beach holidays and sunscreen. Or the aviation industry and media scrutiny. You don’t need us to tell you that every incident in an airport, both large and small, attracts public interest in a matter of minutes, if not seconds. Where there used to be a “golden hour” to get...