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Enhancing inclusive emergency communication: Addressing access and functional needs communities amid disasters

everbridge

By Brian Toolan , Vice President, Public Safety, Everbridge In times of crisis, effective communication is critical to ensuring the safety and well-being of all individuals in our communities. However, traditional communication methods may not adequately reach or cater to the needs of those with access and functional challenges.

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How to Create an Emergency Response Plan

MHA Consulting

Due to the rise in work-from-home, the last few years have seen a serious degradation in organizations’ emergency planning and response capability. In today’s post, we’ll look at why it’s important to have a solid emergency response plan and explain how to create one. Develop and write the emergency response plan.

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Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery

Pure Storage

Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery by Pure Storage Blog Data infrastructures aren’t just built for storage, performance, and scale—they’re designed for resilience. Two key areas of concern include disaster recovery in general, and, more specifically, cyber recovery.

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10 Disaster Recovery Plan Mistakes to Avoid for Your Business

Erwood Group

That’s a sobering statistic that underscores the importance of having a solid disaster recovery plan in place. However, even with the best intentions, many organizations make common mistakes that can leave them vulnerable to downtime, data loss, and costly recovery efforts.

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The Art of Explaining: MHA’s Best Crisis Communications Resources    

MHA Consulting

The rise of the internet and social media has made crisis communications more challenging—and more critical—than ever. In today’s post, we’ll list and link to some of MHA’s best-ever resources on the art of communicating during a crisis. We’ve written a lot about crisis communications over the years. Keep it simple.

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Testing your Response Plans: What Would Confucius Say?

On Solve

Steve Goldman discusses the importance of testing your business resiliency and related response plans. An exercise of the elements of a Business Resiliency, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications or IT Disaster Recovery (BR/CM/CC/DR) plan is an important aspect of an organization’s emergency preparedness.

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Aligning Cyber Incident Response Planning with Your BC/DR Program

eBRP

As a result, more and more organizations have begun developing Cybers Security Incident Response Plans (CSIRPs). Developing these plans in their own ‘silo’ – without considering the cyber incident impacts on general business operations – can be negligent and potentially dangerous.